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British Journal of Cardiac Nursing: Planning, developing and writing an effective conference abstract

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Professional Development

International Transplant Nurses Society: How to Develop a Successful Journal Club

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ITNS

Is your institution discussing implementation of evidence-based practice? Are you a part of your institutionʼs efforts to achieve “Magnet Status”? Are you interested in improving patient outcomes? Then organizing a group of your peers to develop a journal club is a great idea! A formal journal club facilitates discussing and evaluating new research and its application to practice and improving patient care. The advantages of using a journal club are that you and your peers can keep current with new transplant knowledge, learn to evaluate the strength of the evidence, promote implementation of new knowledge into practice and improve patient outcomes.

Critical Thinking in Nurse Managers

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Nurse Economics

THE FRONT-LINE NURSE manager plays a key role in achieving organizational goals of delivering highquality care to satisfied patients.  Creating a positive work environment that fosters staff satisfaction is required of nurse managers (McGuire & Kennerly, 2006). The nurse manager must be a transformational leader capable of influencing staff to align with organizational goals (Robbins & Davidhizar, 2007). Critical thinking skills and the inclination to engage in critical thinking are essential for the nurse manager to function as a transformational leader.

Thinking Like a Nurse: A Research-Based Model of Clinical Judgment in Nursing

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Journal of Nursing Education

This article reviews the growing body of research on clinical judgment in nursing and presents an alternative model of clinical judgment based on these studies. Based on a review of nearly 200 studies, five conclusions can be drawn: (1) Clinical judgments are more influenced by what nurses bring to the situation than the objective data about the situation at hand; (2) Sound clinical judgment

Why Full Open Access Matters

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PLoS Biology

Scientific authors who pay to publish their articles in an open-access publication should be congratulated for doing so. They also should be aware that they may not be getting full open access from some publications that charge for publication under the “open access” label. Two features define an open-access publication: (1) the published contents are freely accessible through the Internet, and (2) readers are given copyright permission (see Box 1) to republish or reuse the content as they like so long as the author and publisher receive proper attribution [1].

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