#1Margie Burns(UPEI: University of Prince Edward Island)H-Index: 2
#2Jill Bally(U of S: University of Saskatchewan)H-Index: 11
Last. Shelley Peacock(U of S: University of Saskatchewan)H-Index: 15
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Nursing knowledge development and application are influenced by numerous factors within the context of science and practice. The prevailing culture of science along with an evolving context of increasingly technological environments and rationalization within health care impacts both the generation of nursing knowledge and the practice of nursing. The effects of the culture of science and the context of nursing practice may negatively impact the structure and application of nursing knowledge, ho...
Nursing has a considerable history of theory development but has consistently struggled to reconcile theoretical reality and practice realities. Many authors have attempted to reconcile what has been called the "theory-practice gap," but the space where these two realities enmesh has remained problematic and contentious (Aimei, Macau Journal of Nursing, 14, 2015, 13; Factor, Matienzo, & de Guzman, Nurse Education Today, 57, 2017, 82). The idea of the theory-practice gap has a significant history...
The intensive care unit (ICU) is the hospital’s hot zone for healthcare-associated infection (HAI), especially ventilator-associated pneumonia, central line-associated bloodstream infection, catheter-associated urinary tract infection and surgical site infection. Evidence-based guidelines to prevent these Big Four are widely available, but healthcare professionals’ compliance is recognised as limited. This chapter discusses the basics of HAI prevention and proposes strategies to improve adherenc...