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Evidence-Based Practice

There have been a number of instances that have prompted me to reflect on how I use social media in the past couple of weeks. It is very easy to barrel along and suddenly create an online presence that yields a 5 page deep list when entering A Google search […]

Reflecting on Your Online Presence

This entry was posted in Evidence-Based Practice FOAM and tagged Guidelines Nursing Social Media on October 12, 2013 by Jesse Spurr

Ever read a dogmatic news headline and had that niggling discomfort with the ‘science’ that passes for newsworthy ‘evidence’? OK, yes, me too. How about read an abstract in an area of interest and quoted the conclusions with conviction later to earn conversational credibility? Be honest, we’ve all done it. […]

Battling Bad Science

This entry was posted in Evidence-Based Practice FOAM and tagged #dogmalysis #FOAMed on May 19, 2013 by Jesse Spurr

Part of my role last year, was to pilot and Early Warning and Recognition System (EWARS) into our hospital. This chart and accompanying escalation protocol was often referred to somewhat derisively as a ‘track n trigger obs chart’. This, and the use of the term ‘dummy’ when alluding to a […]

Respiratory Rate and Why SpO2 is Not the Same Thing

This entry was posted in Evidence-Based Practice and tagged #FOAMed Deteriorating patient EWARS FOAMing Respiration on April 23, 2013 by Jesse Spurr

Just a quick follow up from the first post regarding education and quality improvement. The emphasis needs to be on the search for the right metrics when it comes to quality improvement in general, not just in clinical education (the two should be inextricable). What we want, is to decrease […]

Crude data is just crude

This entry was posted in Evidence-Based Practice Uncategorized and tagged #FOAMed meducation patient safety on March 4, 2013 by Jesse Spurr