Azzam, Jessica and Khatibi, Rushin and Moon, Susanna and Wysolmierski, Dana (2020) Promoting evidence-based practice in skilled nursing facilities through clinical discussion resource guide. Masters thesis, Stanbridge University.
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This thesis project aimed to encourage the implementation of clinical discussions in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in order to promote the use of evidence-based practice among occupational therapy practitioners. The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) endorses evidence-based practice as one of the profession’s important pillars of Vision 2025 (AOTA, 2017). The term, clinical discussions, refers to journal clubs, staff meetings, and online forums that aim to increase the use of evidence-based practice in SNFs. We completed a thorough literature review to identify the gaps in knowledge and resources to support evidence-based practice in skilled nursing facilities. Using best practices gathered from the literature review, we created an informational guide that consists of a handout called the Power of Evidence-based Practice (PEP), a PEP Toolkit, and a promotional PowerPoint presentation. Using the promotional PowerPoint presentation, we conducted an in-service presentation to introduce our findings and our PEP resources to an interdisciplinary rehabilitation team at a local skilled nursing facility. The PEP handout and the PowerPoint presentation explain the purpose, the benefits, and the barriers of clinical discussions with suggested strategies to overcome the barriers to promote higher quality care. These resources are tools for practitioners to use to introduce the benefits of clinical discussions to their administrators. Lastly, the PEP toolkit is a step-by-step guide for successful implementation of clinical discussion in the workplace. The toolkit provides information such as strategies to facilitate clinical discussions and standardized forms to organize the group (e.g. checklists, sign-up sheets, etc.).
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
| Depositing User: | Institutional Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jan 2022 00:54 |
| Last Modified: | 02 May 2024 21:41 |
| URI: | http://repository.stanbridge.edu/id/eprint/70 |
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