Research to Practice Project
management office in nursing care has been shown to improve the nursing care provided to patients and at the same time, improve the management (Lavoie‐Tremblay et al, 2012). PMO plays an important role in facilitating strategic management of organizations (Nieva, & Sorra, 2003). The use of PMO in health centers ensures that there is good management of the health centre and patients. PMO leads to provision of better and quality health care service and ensures that there is staff and patient satisfaction. In 2007, research showed that PMOs were being utilized widely especially in the public sector and only a slight number of 5% represented the health care sector. It showed great success in the public sector and it was considered beneficial to the health sector. As a result of this conclusion, PMO was implemented in a Canadian health care center and it was aimed at improving patient outcomes (Lavoie‐Tremblay et al, 2012). For this healthcare center, PMO helped in team consolidation and team coordination while ensuring that evidence-based health care practices were practiced (Lavoie‐Tremblay et al, 2012). The senior nurses consistently monitored the other nurses to ensure that they practiced evidence-based healthcare practices and this made the nurses to be more committed and use evidence based practices often in their duties. The strength of this research evidence was that the data used had been collected from public and private institution that had practiced this kind of management and it was successful. Therefore, it was possible to collect accurate data and thus providing quality results (Hamilton, 2003). The changes made led to improved patient outcomes because they led to an increase in number of patients who visited the facility and it also led to improved relationship between the patients and the healthcare professionals. The increased numbers of patients was as a result of good management of the healthcare center and a patient-centered approach to care (Hamilton, 2003). The barrier to change that was observed was that people were reluctant to adopt change and thus there was poor cooperation between public and the care center. This problem was tackled though sensitizing the people on the importance of changing the way in which health care was provided so as to improve the nursing services offered to them. This article can help me to improve my healthcare practice through application of evidence-based research into practice. As a senior nursing supervisor, I can be able to monitor the nurses to ensure that the healthcare they provide to patients is evidence-based (Nieva & Sorra, 2003). References Hamilton, D. K. (2003). The four levels of evidence based practice. Healthcare Design, 3(4), 18- 26. Lavoie‐Tremblay, M., Richer, M. C., Marchionni, C., Cyr, G., Biron, A. D., Aubry, M., … & Vézina, M. (2012). Implementation of Evidence‐Based Practices in the Context of a Redevelopment Project in a Canadian Healthcare Organization. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 44(4), 418-427. Nieva, V. F., & Sorra, J. (2003). Safety culture assessment: a tool for improving patient safety in healthcare organizations. Quality and Safety in Health Care, 12(suppl 2), ii17-ii23.
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