Educational interventions on evidence-based nursing in clinical practice: A systematic review with qualitative analysis.

Aims: To gather, assess and synthesise the currently available evidence of educational interventions on evidence-based nursing (EBN).

Background: Previous systematic reviews have focused on the items used in reporting educational interventions for facilitating evidence-based practices in medicine and health care or teaching research literacy in nursing as well as on the outcomes of these interventions.

Design: A systematic review based on a procedure of the Centre for Reviews and Disseminations for conducting a systematic review of health interventions.

A systematic review of the outcomes of educational interventions relevant to nurses with simultaneous strategies for guideline implementation.

Aims And Objectives: To systematically review the literature on the outcomes of educational interventions relevant to nurses with regard to guideline implementation.

Background: Previous reviews on interventions to implement guidelines have focused on particular clinical problems, but only one included nursing studies.

Design: A systematic review based on the procedure of the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination.

A Systematic Review of Journal Clubs for Nurses.

Background: Two previous systematic reviews describe studies on journal clubs from 1995 to 2007.

Aims: To gather, assess, and synthesize the current empirical evidence on implementation of journal clubs, influencing factors, and outcomes of journal clubs in promoting evidence-based nursing.

Design: A systematic review based on the procedure of the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination.

Journal club intervention in promoting evidence-based nursing: perceptions of nursing students.

This study focused on nursing journal clubs as an intervention in promoting evidence-based nursing. Nursing journal clubs refer to arranged meetings where nurses convene to discuss the use of research knowledge in nursing practice. Researchers and directors of a university hospital planned the intervention.

International student nurses' experiences of clinical practice in the Finnish health care system.

The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe international student nurses' experiences of their clinical practice in the Finnish health care system. The data were collected by semi-structured interviews. Fourteen international student nurses of African and Asian origin were interviewed, and the data were then analysed by qualitative content analysis.

Nursing students learning to utilize nursing research in clinical practice.

The purpose of the study was to examine the significance of a learning assignment in relation to research skills and learning of nursing students in clinical practice. The learning assignment included an oral presentation of a nursing research article, which the students gave to their fellow students and ward nurses. The students also chaired the discussion after the presentation.

Evaluation of learning outcomes in a research process and the utilization of research knowledge from the viewpoint of nursing students.

The purpose of this descriptive study was to evaluate the learning that takes place in a research process of nursing students when writing their Bachelor's theses and to describe the learning outcomes in utilizing research knowledge. The sample comprised nursing students from a Finnish polytechnic. All of them worked with their Bachelor's theses.