EBP & Research Council Meeting February 5, 2014

Announcements Introduction Up dates coming to EBP website Journal Clubs 9 for pizza party Sharing on the web Additional night shift EBP meetings Call for abstracts

Member Highlight

PNDP News

Professional Portfolio

What is a Portfolio? “purposeful collection of …. work that tells the story of…efforts, progress and achievement in a given area” Arter, J.A., Spandel, V., & Culham, R. (1995) Portfolios for assessment and instruction (Contract no. RR930002004). Washington DC: Office of Educational Research and Improvement.

Why Portfolio? storage of profession development documentation. Multiple portfolios can be easily created based on use case, e.g., educational requirement, evaluation, accompany manuscript and presentation submissions Decreased time involved in compiling the portfolio Elimination of cumbersome paper-based portfolio development processes Real-time capture of professional development activities Ubiquitous access via the internet Ease of distribution including all supporting documents via hypertext link

Why Portfolio? CV School Professional Development PNDP Tracking outcomes State & National Presence Magnet

What’s in Portfolio? EVERYTHING!!!! License Certifications Degrees CE Both technical (ALCS) and professional (NE-BC) Degrees CE Memberships Community service Awards/recognition Training /seminars Clinical experience Presentations / publications Committee work

Points of Interest Upload and link to documents Pictures, copies of degrees, publications, ppts etc. Create multiple portfolio’s depending on need Magnet PNDP School Performance Eval (suggest to use Magnet format) Ability to send reminders regarding expiration License (think TB, ALCS, etc.) Ability to email portfolio Ability to run reports

Thoughts Accountability at nurse level Nurses at this time ONLY Each individual to enter their OWN data Nurses at this time ONLY Use the “Magnet Assistant” portfolio first Mandatory for all Nurses Assigned via HealthStream on a quarterly basis

Coming Soon!!! Plan to roll out end of February or March Basic Education Tutorial on HealthStream Step by step handouts Option of attending a live class Assigned via HealthStream Additional Education to come later Classes for managers / administrators

What’s the Difference??

Evidence Based Practice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7ODSQrjB88

Quality Improvement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L474FdeEt0Y

Nursing Research http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POHqD8tJOCc

Re-Cap EBP = utilization of published research, clinical expertise, and pt. preferences to make clinical decisions Quality Improvement = focus on systems, processes, functional, satisfaction, or clinical outcomes. QI is designed to eliminate error Nursing Research = answer questions and develop new knowledge using a scientific method

Give it a try…… You look at your unit dashboard and notice that your patient fall rate is increasing. What type of project might you do? EBP, QI, or Research Explain

Give it a try…. You are a member of the Nursing Falls team. You have noticed that the current practices to prevent falls don’t seem to be effective since the hospital fall rate is increasing. You want to know what else could be done. What type of project might you do? EBP, QI, or Research Explain

Give it a try…. You are a member of the Nursing Falls team. Your team wants to know if patients who get fall prevention education everyday fall less than patients who get fall prevention education only on admission. What type of project might you do? EBP, Research, or QI Explain

Questions?? Next meeting March 5, 2014