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Clinical Nurse Specialists: Value Added!

Clinical Nurse Specialists: Value Added!. Barbara Wheeler RN, MN, IBCLC, RLC St. Boniface General Hospital 21 November 2008. The Strong Model. Ackerman, M.H. et al. (1996). The CNS Role. Practice Education Leadership Research

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Clinical Nurse Specialists: Value Added!

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  1. Clinical Nurse Specialists: Value Added! Barbara Wheeler RN, MN, IBCLC, RLC St. Boniface General Hospital 21 November 2008

  2. The Strong Model Ackerman, M.H. et al. (1996)

  3. The CNS Role • Practice • Education • Leadership • Research • CNS role: “recognized as ideal to bridge the research gap between academia and clinical practice”(Nelson, et al., 2007)

  4. Importance of Nursing Research • To provide scientific accountability & a foundation for evidence-based practice • To evaluate the efficacy of nursing practice • To advance the practice of nursing, and ultimately, • To improve clinical outcomes

  5. St. Boniface General Hospital SBGH: 10 Clinical Nurse Specialists • Cardiac Sciences • Gerontology • Medicine • Palliative Care • Surgery • Woman & Child Program

  6. SBGH CNS Research • Staff knowledge & attitudes regarding implementation of the Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP) (B. Tallman) • The effectiveness of probiotic yogurt in preventing antibiotic associated diarrhea in hospitalized patients (K. Jabusch)

  7. Canadian heart failure patients’ & caregivers’ emotions (E. Estrella-Holder) • Multimodal assessment of functional capacity in heart failure patients: The integrated role of the heart failure and device clinics (E. Estrella-Holder)

  8. SBGH CNS Research • Testing the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale (BSES) among mothers of ill or preterm infants • What really happens after they go home? Human milk feeding after NICU discharge(B. Wheeler)

  9. SBGH CNS Research • Parents in the NICU: Development of a satisfaction survey (B. Wheeler) • The effects of post-operative pain education on selected patient outcomes for urgent coronary bypass surgery (A. Fedorowicz)

  10. SBGH CNS Research • Urinary drainage following continence surgery: Development of Canadian best practice guidelines (B. Lewthwaite) • What do nurses know about post-operative nausea and vomiting? (B. Lewthwaite)

  11. SBGH CNS Research • Factors related to patient satisfaction in a Family Medicine Residency Teaching program (J. Parker) • Late-Preterm Infant Research-Based Practice Project (B. Wheeler) • AWHONN: 15 sites in the US and Canada

  12. Our Current Project… • Planning implementation of the WRHA Pain Assessment & Management Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) • CNS group: an opportunity to: • improve pain management, • improve patient satisfaction, and • to decrease LOS

  13. “Pain” Project • Goal: explore knowledge & attitudes nurses (~700 +) have re: pain assessment & management • i.e. baseline knowledge level • Research Tool: a well-validated 22 item true/false questionnaire

  14. Our current project… • Study findings will guide implementation of the CPG at SBGH • Identify knowledge gaps • Design appropriate education sessions • Generate interest in learning about pain then…. • Introduce CPG

  15. Thank you!

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