Cathy J. Thompson

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Discusses process of conducting systematic reviews, writing clinical practice guidelines, and designing students for clinical research

Critical appraisal skills and, importantly, understanding the decision-making process for whether to use or not use research findings in practice, are essential tools nursing educators need to foster in their students. The use of journal clubs as a teaching strategy for nursing education is an excellent way to raise research awareness, improve prof...

To identify changes in nurse attitudes toward research utilization and the organization's research environment preimplementation and postimplementation of a multifaceted intervention to promote the use of research in practice. Nursing practice based on research evidence has been shown to promote positive patient outcomes. Personal characteristics s...

The purpose of this article was to show how sequenced educational strategies aid in the acquisition of systems leadership and change agent skills, as well as other essential skills for professional clinical nurse specialist (CNS) practice. Clinical nurse specialist education offers the graduate student both didactic and clinical experiences to help...

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In this article, authors report one College of Nursing's efforts to address the challenges of multiple academic role expectations by establishing faculty interest groups to promote collaborative scholarship. The background of the project is described in terms of past and recent academic, financial, and environmental influences. Collaborative schola...

Purposes/Aims The purpose of this paper is to describe factors influencing the readiness of rural nurses for evidence-based practice. Background Evidence-based practice (EBP) has become the prevailing paradigm of clinical decision-making and effectiveness in the health sciences. Rural hospitals are also implementing EBP often without the benefit o...

The preliminary findings of the meaning of research utilization as perceived by the bedside nurse provide some clues for promoting research utilization. Nurses must believe in the importance of nursing research to the profession, the individual clinician, and the patient. Nurse researchers should present their findings to the bedside nurse in a way...

Developing research partnerships between academia and the service sector is an innovative way to meet the demand for high-quality, cost-effective, and clinically oriented research. Undergraduate student participation in clinical research is an educational strategy to facilitate positive mindsets toward research. This article outlines the methodolog...

Patient evaluations of effectiveness of care and satisfaction with care are useful outcome indicators of pain management. The subiective, multidimensional nature of pain is best evaluated when outcome measures include the richness of qualitative data to more fully capture the range of patient experiences. A descriptive qualitative component was add...

Introduction The purpose of this study was to describe the extent of and factors influencing research utilization (RU) among critical care nurses. Rogers'Diffusion of Innovations theory was the study framework. The instruments consisted of the Nursing Practice Questionnaire- Critical Care Version and the Research Factor Questionnaire. Answers to qu...

The problem of unresolved pain in hospitalized patients is costly both in monetary terms and in patient comfort. Concern about patients' satisfaction and well-being led to a study to determine the characteristics of the pain experience as reported by the hospitalized patients. This study also examined the recently revised American Pain Society Pati...

The problem of unresolved pain in hospitalized patients is costly both in monetary terms and in patient comfort. Concern about patients’ satisfaction and well-being led to a study to determine the characteristics of the pain experience as reported by the hospitalized patients. This study also examined the recently revised American Pain Society Pati...

The article describes a pain management report card developed as a result of a study on pain satisfaction. The report card presented the actual results of the study and compared them with the institution's predetermined goals. Comparison items included adherence to national pain guidelines for pain management, various measures of the pain experienc...

Cardiac dysrhythmia in the older patient is a common finding during critical illness. Changes in the functional anatomy and physiology of the cardiac conduction system are associated with the direct and indirect effects of aging. The pathophysiology and clinical manifestations related to changes in cardiac cellular and neural structures are present...

The denervated heart requires significant changes in planning and implementing care. The loss of direct neural compensation in response to the body's demands is replaced by the denervated heart's reliance on preload augmentation to maintain cardiac output, stimulation of cardiac adrenergic receptor sites to promote inotropic and chronotropic respon...