The United States’ evolving health care system and the recent focus on integrated care underscore the relevance of multidisciplinary approach to psychological treatment. Evidencebased treatment for ADHD that is grounded in a multidisciplinary one-stop shop approach is discussed. A case study is presented, illustrating strategies for utilizing empirically supported multidimensional treatment for...

I a relatively short amount of time, the term “evidencebased public health” has flooded dialogues on program planning, implementation, and evaluation. What is evidence-based public health? Abigail Adams reminded us that “we have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them” (1). In Evidence-Based Public Health, Brownson and colleagues provide not only a precise de...

Knowledge of law that establishes a profession is essential for the professional. Nurses practice within an environment in which accountability is demanded by the professional body as well as the communities they serve. This implies that the very nature of nursing practice requires nurses to be vigilant about understanding of the law. However, there is paucity of empirical evidence of nurses’ k...

OBJECTIVE This study describes essential elements for an optimal clinical practice environment wherein scholarly nursing practice flourishes. BACKGROUND Existing literature confirms that a healthy work environment that supports professional scholarly nursing practice is essential to retention and satisfaction of clinical nurses, enhanced patient safety, and improved patient/family outcomes. ...

BACKGROUND Careful nursing, a system of nursing developed in Ireland by Catherine McAuley in the early years of the 19th century and used by Irish nurses at the Crimean war, has been described as Ireland's legacy to nursing. Although records of careful nursing have been preserved, it has received little attention in the nursing literature. AIM The purpose of this study was to conduct a prelim...

The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign convened a workshop on 2nd February 2005 to draw up evidencebased recommendations for the management of respiratory problems in adults with muscle diseases. The strength of these recommendations was graded using the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) methodology (Table 1). Neurogenic conditions, neuromuscular junction disorders and myotonic dystro...

Sze-jung Wu; Mark R. Lehto; Yuehwern Yih; Jason J. Saleem 3, ; B.N. Doebbeling 4, 5 School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA; VA HSR&D Center on Implementing Evidencebased Practice, Roudebush VAMC, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; School of Engineering & Technology, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; IU Center for Health Services & Outcomes Research, Regen...