Integrated knowledge translation in nursing homes: exploring the experiences of practice development nurses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Practice Development Nurses (PDNs) in Norwegian nursing homes (NHs) hold a specific responsibility for knowledge translation in this increasingly complex healthcare setting. They were involved as end users in an integrated knowledge translation (IKT) study, developing, testing and evaluating the IMPAKT (IMPlementation of Action to Knowledge Translation) intervention. PDNs participated in an educational programme tailored to their own defined needs. In a second intervention component, the PDNs applied their new skills with facilitation, in implementing the National Early Warning Score (NEWS2) in their respective NHs. The aim of this study was to explore 1) the PDNs' experiences of participating in an IKT educational intervention, and 2) how they applied the learning in pl

SUBMITTER: Steinskog TD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8628377 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature