Practical Steps Supporting Professional Publications for Leadership and Teams.

Disseminating research or evidence-based practice is not straightforward. As more clinical nurses, executive nurse leaders, nurse scientists, and faculty contribute to new knowledge, there is an increasing need to support the processes to publish and disseminate manuscripts to advance healthcare. Nurse administrators and leaders are key influencers and supporters to bolster expertise and resources to publish.

Assessing Outcome Measurements and Impact of Simulation in Neurocritical Care Training: A Systematic Review.

AIM: The use of simulation training in neurocritical care is increasing. Yet, the pooled impact on patient and trainee outcomes remains unclear. This systematic review aims to determine the outcome measurements used after simulation training in neurocritical care and to synthesize the current evidence about the impact of simulation training on these outcomes.

Patient Deterioration in the Adult Progressive Care Unit: A Scoping Review.

Background: The American Heart Association set a goal in 2010 to double the percentage of hospitalized adult patients who survive cardiac arrest by 2020. Because of acuity and interventions, progressive care patients are a population of interest to address this goal. The state of the literature involving patient deterioration, which can lead to cardiac arrest, in the progressive care setting has yet to be explored.

Continuous Lactate Measurement Devices and Implications for Critical Care: A Literature Review.

The aim of this article is to review the literature on lactate measurements in critical care and the current devices used to measure noninvasively and invasively. Lactate measurements are currently being used as a way to measure the severity of sepsis. Intravascular and subcutaneous devices are some of the ways that these measurements can be continuously gathered as well as point-of-care blood tests.

Innovative solutions: using case studies to generate increased nurse's clinical decision-making ability in critical care.

Learning to care for critically ill patients requires a high level of critical thinking, clinical decision-making ability, and a substantial knowledge base. At this nursing school, an elective Critical Care Nursing course for last-semester seniors was designed to include active learning strategies, focusing on the use of case studies to facilitate learning. Results indicate significantly improved final examination scores for those involved with the case-study pedagogy.

A unique collaborative nursing evidence-based practice initiative using the Iowa model: a clinical nurse specialist, a health science librarian, and a staff nurse's success story.

Purpose/objectives: The purpose of this article was to share how the collaboration of a clinical nurse specialist (CNS), a health science librarian, and a staff nurse can heighten staff nurses' awareness of the evidence-based practice (EBP) process.

Background/rationale: The staff nurse is expected to incorporate EBP into daily patient care. This expectation is fueled by the guidelines established by professional, accrediting, and regulatory bodies.