Lee Memorial Hospital ICU Nursing Research journal club 

Description

Target Audience:  All Lee Memorial Health System nursing staff

Purpose:  The Lee Memorial Hospital 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:  As scheduled by the Lee Memorial Hospital ICU Journal Club Coordinator

Place:  ICU Conference Room, Lee Memorial Hospital

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

Leader: 

Aleksandra Radovanovich, MSN, RN, CNS, CCRN
335-7738
aleksandra.radovanovich@leememorial.org

Updated: April 7, 2008