Health Park Medical Center ICU
 Nursing Research journal club 

Description

Target Audience:  All ICU nursing staff.

Purpose:  The HealthPark ICU Nursing Research Journal Club strives to introduce pertinent nursing research to interested nurses, supporting and developing staff’s research skills to ultimately enrich nursing practice.

Educational Objectives: 

• To enhance nurses’ knowledge of the research process
• To enhance nurses’ ability to critically evaluate published nursing research
• To develop an awareness of current nursing research studies
• To evaluate current practice based on evidence-based nursing research results
• To share information with other nursing staff members
• To motivate nurses to participate in evidence-based practice and/or nursing research projects at LMHS
• To develop and enhance critical thinking skills

Desired outcomes:  The desired outcome is to improve nurses’ understanding in developing evidence-based practice and conducting primary nursing research.

Format:  Meetings

Frequency of meetings:  TBD

Place:  TBD

Reading assignments:  The journal article to be reviewed will be available the first business day of each month.

• A link to the month’s article will be posted on the Nursing WEB page
• A link to the month’s article will be posted on the Medical Library WEB page

Available credits:  Application has been made to earn one (1) contact hour for each Journal Club meeting attended

Advisor: 

Janet Stedcke RN, BS

Janet.stedcke@leememorial.org

239-343-5524

Updated: November 8, 2007