Nurses manage patients with common infectious diseases by following institutional guidelines based on expert advice, evidence in the literature, and a wealth of experience. Today nurses are challenged to provide care to patients with multidrug-resistant organisms and virulent infectious diseases such as Ebola virus disease. Management of some patients with virulent infectious diseases occurs in...

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the context of caring, considering best evidence from studies, patient care data, clinical experience and expertise, and patients’ preferences and values. Health care agencies, government agencies, and national professional organizations such as the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses have all been supporters of evidence-based practice (EBP) as studies continue to show improved outcome...

AIM This article aims to identify the contributions of qualitative research to evidence-based practice in nursing. BACKGROUND Qualitative research dates back to the 1920s and 1930s, when anthropologists and sociologists used qualitative research methods to study human phenomena in naturalistic settings and from a holistic viewpoint. Afterwards, other subject matters, including nursing, adopte...

There is little empirical evidence evaluating the effects of recent, widespread changes in nurse executive roles and nursing management structures on the costs of patient care. This retrospective cross-sectional study examined the relationship between line authority for nurse staffing and patient care costs (total, nursing, and non-nursing cost) using data from 124 Department of Veterans Affair...

background in recent decades, health care systems has greatly influenced by the technology development. the technology is helpful to enhance quality of care, reduce costs and improve patient care if appropriate training be applied for technology users. technology user’s training has been studied in some quantitative studies; however, a few investigators have studied the challenges which nurses’...