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Maternal-Child Health Nurse Leadership Academy (MCHNLA) Posters

Abstract

Implementing evidence-based practice requires professional clinical competence, institutional support, leadership skills, and a value for patient preferences. Leadership has been identified as a crucial component for implementing evidence-based practice. In this project, a transformational leadership model is utilized to implement evidence-based fetal monitoring in a rural community hospital through the work of a multidisciplinary team who set out to change practice and improve patient care for laboring women.

Description

Patti Gardner was a mentee in Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing 2006-2007cohort of the Maternal Child Health Leadership Academy. Dr. Stepans servered as the mentor on this project. Posters were presented at Sigma's Biennial Convention as noted in this item record. The 2006-2007 cohort was the second (2nd) cohort of this academy.

Author Details

Patti Gardner, DNP, APRN-NP, PMHNP-BC - Assistant Professor | College of Nursing, Creighton University, Email pattigardner@creighton.edu; Mary Beth Flanders Stepans, RN, PhD - School of Nursing, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

Sigma Membership

Tau Tau

Lead Author Affiliation

Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Type

Poster

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Clinical Practice Guideline(s)

Research Approach

Qualitative Research

Keywords:

Transformational Leadership, Fetal Monitoring, Intermittent Auscultation

Conference Name

39th Biennial Convention

Conference Host

Sigma Theta Tau International

Conference Location

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Conference Year

2007

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Self-submission

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Implementing an evidence-based fetal monitoring practice using a transformational leadership model

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Implementing evidence-based practice requires professional clinical competence, institutional support, leadership skills, and a value for patient preferences. Leadership has been identified as a crucial component for implementing evidence-based practice. In this project, a transformational leadership model is utilized to implement evidence-based fetal monitoring in a rural community hospital through the work of a multidisciplinary team who set out to change practice and improve patient care for laboring women.