These are the abstracts for the poster and podium presentations from the recent 13th National Advanced Practice Neonatal Nurses Conference in San Diego, California. They represent a broad range of neonatal issues. By sharing this information, we hope to increase awareness of research and innovative programs within the neonatal health care community, and support evidence-based nursing practice. ...

PURPOSE The quality of nursing care in geriatric hospitals has been of concern. Nurses need to provide evidence-based nursing using best available research findings in order to maximize the quality of care. Research utilization is a major part of evidence-based nursing practice. Empowerment is an important factor that may influence the context of nursing practice. The purpose of this study was ...

Background: Nurses constitute the largest group of health care providers and play a fundamental role in continuing of care and health promotion and preservation at different levels of the health provider system. After new change in the health care system, society expects more from nurses. Researchers believe that in order to elevate the quality of nursing care, acting based on the evidence and ...

Background:Evidence-based care guidelines are one of the new ways to improve the quality of care and increase patient satisfaction. In addition to the mental and emotional problems, mentally ill patient suffers from multiple health problems. The most common patient's bio-psycho problems are insomnia and constipation. Aim: The aim of this study was to designing and Accredit the evidence-based ca...

background: foot ulceration is one of the most common complications associated with diabetes that needs to be managed. in iran, prevalence of diabetes foot ulcer is 3%. according to studies, evidence‑based nursing (ebn) is an effective alternative to facilitate clinical decision making in patient care and may lead to quality improvement in nursing practice. the aims of this study are to assess ...

effective clinical care requires nurses to obtain the capability of putting the research findings into application. during the recent years, evidence-based nursing (ebn) has proved itself as a way for health care and therapy based on new findings being used in clinical care practices. however, studies show that nurses have problem in evidence-based practice application the most of which reveals...