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Article: Nasogastric tube placement verification in pediatric and neonatal patients.(Continuing Nursing Education Series)
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- Pediatric Nursing
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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Pediatric nurses have always been strong advocates of providing high-quality patient care. The evidence-based practice process offers an opportunity to support updating nursing practice based on the strongest research evidence available, in combination with patient and family values and sound clinical judgment (Sackett, Straus, Richardson, Rosenberg, & Haynes, 2000). Using the evidence-based practice process results in improved patient outcomes, often while reducing costs, and provides an opportunity for bedside clinicians to demonstrate an important impact on health care. Traditional nursing practices provide a wonderful opportunity to question practice and potentially ...