NURSING
Nursing: Evidence-Based Practice
Evidence-based practice helps the new nurses to gain expertise that the previous scholar has verified within their current practice for positive patient outcomes. However, to ensure quality patient care, communication plays an integral role in disseminating factual knowledge. This paper aims to provide the databases and the evaluation criteria that would be useful for managing the selected diagnosis for a patient while supervising new nurses.
As a baccalaureate-prepared nurse supervising the clinical staff nurses, communication needs to be transparent to make collaboration hassle-free. The nursing practice scenario is about one of the three under-supervision nurses coming to me inquiring about an unknown diagnosis: sepsis for urinary tract infection. It is realized that for patient-centered care, a training method has been introduced by the University of California, Los General Hospital as a revision of the CICARE communication model via Chineseization called the six-step standard communication process (Geng et al., 2022). It entails connecting, introducing, communicating, asking, responding, and exiting as the key six steps for rapid communication and higher levels of professionalism in health services. It is especially valuable for creating patient-nurse harmony and trust.
Based on the above-discussed model, the five credible online sources are PubMed, NCBI, Diagnostics, Journal of Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment, and Tandfoline database. The first is the most reliable, followed by the other based on their subsequent credibility levels. The reason for selecting these five sources is that they have peer-reviewed, open-access for, full-text articles. They have been approved by scholars and medical professionals with the latest information on different diagnoses and practical, evidence-based solutions when the patient faces…
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