Evidence-Based Care for Midwives

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ISBN: 9781846191473 | 1846191475
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Copyright: 2/21/2008

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(Staffordshire University) Univ. Hospital of North Staffordshire, UK. Describes implementing clinical governance through the practical application of various components of a quality midwifery service. Topics include questions about cost-effectiveness and undertaking a literature search. For students and midwives. Previous edition: c2001. Softcover.

About the authors	p. v
Preface	p. vi
Introduction	p. 1
Overall aim of the programme	p. 1
Objectives of this book	p. 1
Self-assessment of where you are now with clinical effectiveness and clinical governance	p. 2
What are clinical effectiveness and evidence-based healthcare?	p. 4
What is the evidence for evidence-based healthcare?	p. 5
Why midwives need information	p. 6
Are midwives ready for evidence-based healthcare?	p. 7
Learning by portfolio	p. 8
Electronic databases	p. 10
Asking the right question	p. 18
Questions about cost-effectiveness	p. 19
Framing questions: some examples	p. 20
Examples of questions you might pose as a midwife	p. 23
Undertaking a literature search	p. 25
The search strategy: think, search and appraise	p. 25
Undertake a search	p. 26
Using the Cochrane Library	p. 27
Using the Medline database	p. 27
The hierarchy of evidence	p. 28
Examples	p. 29
Searching by yourself	p. 34
Frame your own question and search for the evidence	p. 38
Appraise the evidence	p. 42
The meaning of different research methods and terms	p. 42
Reading a paper	p. 49
Critical appraisal of a published paper or report of a study	p. 50
Examples	p. 53
Critical appraisal of a qualitative research paper	p. 63
Critically appraise a published paper	p. 65
Our review of Hannah M, Hannah W, Hewson S et al. (2000)	p. 68
Apply the evidence	p. 71
Diary of your progress in searching for evidence	p. 71
Action plan	p. 72
Barriers to change	p. 73
What clinical governance means and how to put it into practice	p. 76
Components of clinical governance	p. 76
The challenges to delivering clinical governance	p. 78
Enhancing your personal and professional development	p. 79
How evidence-based care, clinical effectiveness and other components of clinical governance fit together
The practitioner's or the unit's perspective	p. 80
The primary care organisation's or trust's perspective	p. 91
Research Governance Framework for Health and Social Care	p. 95
Focusing on your revalidation - where clinical governance fits	p. 98
Moving from appraisal to revalidation	p. 100
Where clinical governance fits with revalidation	p. 102
Continuing professional development (CPD)	p. 104
Differentiating appraisal and assessment	p. 105
Preparing for appraisal and revalidation	p. 105
Compiling an effective personal development plan (PDP)	p. 109
How to identify your development and service needs	p. 110
Providing evidence of your competence and performance	p. 120
Evaluate your newly gained knowledge and skills in clinical effectiveness and clinical governance	p. 135
Useful publications of evidence already available	p. 138
Organisations	p. 139
Useful websites	p. 141
Further reading	p. 143
References	p. 145
Index	p. 151
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