Stanford Center for Implementation and Evaluation of Nursing Care Evidence
A PART OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE & CLINICAL IMPROVEMENT
The Stanford Center for Implementation and Evaluation of Nursing Care Evidence (S.C.I.E.N.C.E.) resides within the Professional Practice and Clinical Improvement Department, providing support for the implementation of evidence-based practices, including:
· Consultation
· Education and Training
· Tools and Resources
Barbara Mayer, PhD, RN, CNS, CPHQ - Director
Patricia Britt, MSN, RN, CNS, NEA-BC - Deputy Director
Professional Practice & Clinical
Improvement »
Overview
Professional Practice »
Ensuring nurses deliver safe & effective care
Specialty Practice »
Providing complex or high-risk patient care
Nursing Quality »
Safety and quality improvement initiatives
Stanford Center for Implementation and Evaluation of Nursing Care Evidence »
Alignment of evidence & clinical practice
The Stanford Evidence-Based Practice Model
Stanford EBP Model
The center circle illustrates that evidence supporting nursing practice is derived from both research and quality improvement work.
Surrounding the circle are the Practice, Education, Excellence and Research departments which collaborate, as represented by the gold arrows, to drive the generation and use of evidence.
The outer ring represents internal and external factors that influence nursing practice and may serve as triggers to question and evaluate practice.
What is...
Evidence Based Practice - the integration of clinical expertise, patient values, and the best research evidence into the decision-making process for patient care.
Quality Improvement - systematic and continuous efforts to achieve stable and predictable process results, that is, to reduce process variation and improve the outcomes of these processes both for patients and the health care organization and system. Visit the AHRQ website for more information.
Research – a process of steps to collect, organize and analyze information aimed at the discovery and interpretation of facts to increase our knowledge of a topic or issue.
Innovation – the introduction of new or improved policies, systems, products, technologies, services, and interventions that result in solutions that met new requirements, or existing or unarticulated needs.
Information Literacy – the ability to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information (American Library Association)