Looking through a new lens, exploring the interdependent relationship between interprofessional education and collaborative practice with Polarity Thinking.

The context of interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice (IPCP) has led to calls for greater alignment, coordination, and coalitions among education and healthcare delivery systems. One method to evaluate and improve these coalitions is the Polarity Thinking framework. Polarities, such as IPE and IPCP, can represent interdependent pairs of different but complementary values or perspectives.

Development and psychometric testing of the Readiness to Engage with Patient-Facing Health Information Technology Tools (RE-PHIT) scale.

Objective: With the proliferation of patient-facing health information technology (HIT) tools, nurses are in a position to support the technology needs of both patients and families. The purpose of this study was to develop and examine the psychometric properties of the Readiness to Engage with Patient-Facing Health Information Technology (RE-PHIT) instrument intended to measure nurse readiness to support patient and family use of HIT tools.

Materials And Methods: Content for the 10-item instrument was derived from the literature, notably from Hibbard's Patient Activation Measure and from expert nurse informaticists.

Evidence-Based Practice and U.S. Healthcare Outcomes: Findings From a National Survey With Nursing Professional Development Practitioners.

Nursing professional development (NPD) practitioners are integral to implementing evidence-based practice (EBP). Research was conducted to describe NPD practitioners' EBP beliefs and competencies, frequency of implementing EBP, and perceptions of organizational culture and readiness for EBP. Relationships among NPD practitioner characteristics and organization outcomes were explored.

A Study of Chief Nurse Executives Indicates Low Prioritization of Evidence-Based Practice and Shortcomings in Hospital Performance Metrics Across the United States.

Background: Although findings from studies indicate that evidence-based practice (EBP) results in high-quality care, improved patient outcomes, and lower costs, it is not consistently implemented by healthcare systems across the United States and globe.

Aims: The purpose of this study was to describe: (a) the EBP beliefs and level of EBP implementation by chief nurse executives (CNEs), (b) CNEs' perception of their hospitals' EBP organizational culture, (c) CNEs' top priorities, (d) amount of budget invested in EBP, and (e) hospital performance metrics.

Methods: A descriptive survey was conducted.

Interdisciplinary evidence-based practice and the electronic health record: from theory to reality.

This session will share the vision of a growing international healthcare consortium that has created collaborative approaches in creating a common clinical practice framework that supports practice interoperability that is critical to healthcare technology and patient and clinician safety. The framework is grounded in integrated scopes of practice and a wealth of evidence-based clinical tools and resources to support learning and work environments that are intentionally designed to keep both clinicians and patients safe. Through partnerships with healthcare technology companies, the framework is now live in over 30 acute care Electronic Health Record's (EHR) and being used by thousands of interdisciplinary clinicians everyday to enhance the delivery of safe, quality care and maintain a healthy culture.