1. Education: Moving Evidence into Practice
Northern Adelaide Local Health Network Lyell McEwin Hospital
Education: Moving Evidence into Practice
Karleen Thornton
Nursing Director: Nursing Midwifery Education, Research & Practice Development

2. For Discussion What is evidence and why is evidence important
For Discussion What is evidence and why is evidence important? Impediments to uptake Nurse Educator strategies to overcome impediments
Ninna Marni [Kaurna]
Hello how are you?
We would like to acknowledge this land that we meet on today is the traditional lands for the Kaurna people and that we respect their spiritual relationship with the country. We also acknowledge the Kaurna people as the custodians of the Adelaide region and that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important to the living Kaurna people today.
I am very pleased to be here today and share with you some of the work we are undertaking at Lyell McEwin Hospital in an effort to move evidence into practice.
I believe that regardless of our professions, education plays an integral role in developing the capacity and capability of our professions and in turn contributing to a workforce with high level skills and capacity.

3. What is evidence and why is evidence important?

4. What is evidence and why is evidence important?
Grounding nursing practice in evidence, rather than tradition, is necessary to meet nursing's social obligation of accountability, to gain and maintain credibility among other health disciplines and to build a nursing knowledge base that can be used to influence policy at agency and governmental levels (Rafael 2000).

5. What impedes uptake?

6. What impedes uptake?

7. Nurse Educator Strategies to overcome impediments
Moving evidence into practice should occur as a continuum, whereby it is a part of our practice and not something that we think of as separate to our practice.
This may be an ideal but one to which we should aspire.
Descriptor
Sources of Evidence
Filtered Resources[j1] 
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Systematic Reviews in CINAHL
Systematic Reviews in MEDLINE
Ovid MEDLINE
PubMed
Critically-Appraised Topics
National Guideline Clearinghouse
The Joanna Briggs Institute Best Practice Series
Critically-Appraised Individual Articles
Evidence-Based… Journal series
The ACP Journal Club
Bandolier
EvidenceUpdates
Unfiltered Resources.
CINAHL
PsycINFO
Background Information/Expert Opinion
DynaMed / UpToDate / Harrison's Online
 [j1]

8. Lyell McEwin Hospital: Practice Development Framework

9. Lyell McEwin Hospital: Nursing / Midwifery Research Framework
Novice
Advanced Beginner
Competent
Proficient
Expert
Aim for nurse / midwife
Acquire a basic understanding of research principles
Acquire a basic understanding of research theories, methodologies & methods & their applicability to practice
Develop competence in the application of research theories, methodologies & methods
Critically apply research theories, methodologies & methods
Contribute to the development of new knowledge
Focus area for nurse / midwife.
Requires the organisation provides requisite support
The learner should acquire a basic understanding of:
Types of research
Relevance of research to practice
The learner should acquire an understanding of:
Basic fundamentals of conducting research
Research theories
Research methodologies
Research methods
Relevance of ethics when conducting research
The learner should know how to apply their understanding of:
Theories of research in the context of a health environment.
How evidenced
Developing Ethics protocols
Collecting research data
Interpreting research data
Actively engaged in research projects
The learner should be able to critique and generate new understandings of:
The development and application of research findings in practice
Research lead
The learner should be able to collaborate with and lead on research programmes that:
Influence strategy, policy and practice
Enables practitioner research to be realised.
Grant writing

13. Nurse educators cannot bear sole responsibility for incorporation of evidence into practice and are required to work in tandem with other change agents to support evidence based nursing practice.
Each and everyone one of you here today is charged with being a change agent in order to move evidence into practice.