Practice Standards

Guidelines: minimum standards, gold standards, or ideals for practice?

I have a spectrum of reactions to guidelines. Most impress me with the sheer volume of material that has been reviewed. Some show great thoughtfulness & practicality, such as the “Guidelines for Management of Valvular Heart Disease” [1]. Others contain recommendations without basis in trial data, such as the recent PCI guideline suggestion that post-PCI CK-MB elevations might require additional...

Standards of home health nursing practice.

Impact of Device Standards on Perfusion Practice.

Most of us are busy doing the noble deeds of patient care and some of us can barely catch enough sleep to worry about device standards. When we put together all the components and make it into a system, we take it for granted that they will work efficiently, effectively, and safely for the duration of use for which it is intended. This fact is pretty amazing considering that various components ...

Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice

The American Nurses Association published the third iteration of its nursing informatics scope and standards of practice in 2008. This work reflects the significant evolution of the specialty from the original scope of practice statement published in 1994 and the first nursing informatics standards of practice in 1995. Although the definition of nursing informatics remains essentially unchanged...

E-Commerce Standards: Transforming Industry Practice

This chapter introduces XML-based e-commerce standards that have emerged within the past decade. The chapter describes the history of e-commerce standards, and then presents representative horizontal and vertical e-commerce standards by detailing their functionality, and how their development has been shaped by various stakeholders. The chapter also describes the potential for these standards t...