Description
Target
Audience: All Lee Memorial Health System
nursing staff
Purpose:
The Cape Coral Hospital 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: Monthly; as scheduled by Cape Coral
Hospital Journal Club Coordinators
Place:
Various conference rooms, Cape Coral 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
Leaders:
Linda Ryan, RN, MS,
C.N.A., BC
772-6665
Linda.ryan@leememorial.org
Donna Lewandowski,
RNC, BS
574-0188
donna.lewandowski@leememorial.org
Updated: April
27, 2005
