Bedside scholar

[Teach]

What does bedside scholar mean to you and have you ever thought of yourself as a bedside scholar?????

Teach

[RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN]

Never heard of this, but will bump the question back up.

[bookwormom]

I love it!! I like to think of myself as scholarly on several levels, and to me it would mean that I base my care on the sum of all I have learned in my life, not just in nursing but also in experience and wide reading.

[VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN]

I look at "bedside scholar" as the nurse who bases his or her interventions and nursing care on research (evidence-based practice). Here is a great article along these lines:

http://www.ncbon.com/Forms/Winter2005Bulletin.pdf page 11

[bookwormom]

(I have had computer touble and haven't looked at the article yet.)

But this is such an interesting topic that I resorted to the low tech approach. I pulled out my old Oxford Universal Dictionary, and found this definition of scholar: "A learned or erudite person; esp. one who iis learned in the classical languages and their literature." I know this is an old definition, but to me it suggests an broad, inclusive level of knowledge across disciplines. To me it would include more than research.

That is why, I think, that nurses benefit from a broad educational base. I don't mean to minimize the importance of research for giving care, but I can hardly think of any aspect of learning that might not somehow enrich care and nursing in general.

[dreamlandeals]

I look at "bedside scholar" as the nurse who bases his or her interventions and nursing care on research (evidence-based practice). Here is a great article along these lines:

http://www.ncbon.com/Forms/Winter2005Bulletin.pdf page 11

Any body have idea how you implement Evidence based practice in hospital when you find one ?