Help with evidence based nursing interventions?

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For our clinical paperwork (by the way, our school COMPLETELY got rid of care plans, but in its place we now do piles and piles of paperwork and assessments) we have an area to write in our nursing interventions for certain patients.

I've been using my books, but after just two weeks I'm running out of topic from my book. Our school gives us access to Lippincott's Nursing Advisor so I've been using that, but it's much of the same. I've been looking through more databases through our library but they're still much of same.

Anyway, I'm just wondering where you're all getting your evidence based nursing interventions from! I feel like I'm running out.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Capacity/Bed Management.

When I have to submit evidenced based practice nursing interventions I look at databases and pull articles that would support my intervention. For example, I wrote in my careplan that I would change the TLC dressing and place a BioPatch disk on the insertion site. I went on a nursing database and pulled up a research article that resulted in a decrease of CLABSI with the use of chlorahexadine impreganted disks.

Know the intervention you want to perform the go on a database and look for a recent journal article that supports it's use with research and studies.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

NANDA....

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NANDA-I 2012-2014 will give you current information on the definitions, defining characteristics and causative factors to make nursing diagnoses,all evidence-based. For interventions and rationales, you can't beat the classic NANDA, NOC, and NIC Linkages, Johnson at al. Be sure to get the most recent edition-- the 2nd edition (2006) is outdated.

NOC stands for Nursing Outcomes Classification, and NIC stands for Nursing Interventions Classifications. This is exactly what you want and it's loaded to the gills with literature citations (there's your evidence bases for interventions). I promise you'll love it.

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Thank you so so much! This will help me a lot.

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Specializes in Education, research, neuro.
NANDA-I 2012-2014 will give you current information on the definitions, defining characteristics and causative factors to make nursing diagnoses,all evidence-based. For interventions and rationales, you can't beat the classic NANDA, NOC, and NIC Linkages, Johnson at al. Be sure to get the most recent edition-- the 2nd edition (2006) is outdated.

NOC stands for Nursing Outcomes Classification, and NIC stands for Nursing Interventions Classifications. This is exactly what you want and it's loaded to the gills with literature citations (there's your evidence bases for interventions). I promise you'll love it.

It's interesting that when you get away from "care plans" you end up right back where you started?

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It's interesting that when you get away from "care plans" you end up right back where you started?

Not at all clear what you mean by this. Can you help me out here?

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NANDA, NIC, NOC -- Lifesavers!

As for databases, my favorite is CINAHL. I think almost every EBP paper I did during school, I found most of the articles on there.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

I like medscape as well.

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