2 results match your criteria: "UnityPoint Health Allen Hospital[Affiliation]"
Leveraging a required e-portfolio course to meet multiple needs: Student assessment, curriculum improvement, and accreditation.
Curr Pharm Teach Learn
December 2020
UnityPoint Health Allen Hospital, 1825 Logan Ave, Waterloo, IA, United States. Electronic address:
Background: Learning portfolios enable student pharmacists to connect program outcomes and related learning experiences to future practice as healthcare providers. Assessment programs also require data to inform decisions regarding curriculum quality and maintain program accreditation. Our goal was to create a portfolio meeting multiple needs, including learning improvement, curricular assessment, and accreditation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Effect of an Evidence-Based Practice Education and Mentoring Program on Increasing Knowledge, Practice, and Attitudes Toward Evidence-Based Practice in a Rural Critical Access Hospital.
J Nurs Adm
May 2020
Author Affiliations: Clinical and Nursing Administrative Coordinator (Ms Mudderman), Former Associate Director of Nursing Practice (Ms Wilson-Sands), Former Education Specialist and Present Care Coordination and Education Manager (Ms Brahn), and Former Education Manager and Present Birthing Center Nurse (Ms Graves), Waverly Health Center, Iowa; Assistant Professor and Leadership Program Director (Dr Nelson-Brantley), University of Kansas School of Nursing; Oncology Service Line Director (Ms Wilson-Sands), UnityPoint Health Allen Hospital, Waterloo, Iowa; Assistant Professor (Ms Graves), School of Nursing, Allen College, Waterloo, Iowa.
Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of an evidence-based practice (EBP) education and mentoring program on the knowledge, practice, and attitudes toward EBP among staff nurses and clinicians in a rural critical access hospital.
Background: While rural nurses value EBP, they often have more limited resources to engage in EBP activities compared with urban-based nurses.
Methods: Direct care nurses and clinicians participated in a 5-month EBP education and mentoring program following the Iowa Model Revised: Evidence-Based Practice to Promote Excellence in Health Care.