PHINMA ARAULLO UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF NURSING

Clinical
Practice
Guidelines

Submitted To:
Mr. Seth Job Salamanca, RPh
(Name of Professor)

Submitted By:
Del Rosario, Zyrel Aubrey
Dela Cruz, Verlyn Jane
Fabros, Jenny
Fernandez, Johanna
Jacob, Winnie
Manuel, Lenard
Mata, Nicole
Orcino, Kristine Joyce
(SQUAD 2)
Clinical Practice Guidelines

Over the past decade, clinical guidelines have increasingly become a familiar part of clinical practice. Every
day, clinical decisions at the bedside, rules of operation at hospitals and clinics, and health spending by
governments and insurers are being influenced by guidelines. As defined by the Institute of Medicine, clinical
practice guidelines are “systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions about
appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances.” They may offer concise instructions on which
diagnostic or screening tests to order, how to provide medical or surgical services, how long patients should stay in
hospital, or other details of clinical practice.

Clinical practice guidelines are statements that include recommendations intended to optimize patient care
that are informed by a systematic review of evidence and an assessment of the benefits and harms of alternative
care options. Rather than dictating a one-size-fits-all approach to patient care, clinical practice guidelines offer an
evaluation of the quality of the relevant scientific literature, and an assessment of the likely benefits and harms of a
particular treatment. This information enables health care clinicians to select the best care for a unique patient
based on his or her preferences. These guidelines are not fixed protocols that must be followed, but are intended for
health care professionals and providers to consider.

Purposes of Clinical Practice Guidelines

To describe appropriate care based on the best available scientific evidence and broad consensus;
To reduce inappropriate variation in practice;
To provide a more rational basis for referral;
To provide a focus for continuing education;
To promote efficient use of resources;
To act as focus for quality control, including audit;
To highlight shortcomings of existing literature and suggest appropriate future research.

Examples of e-journals Used in the Practice of Nursing

CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing

 For over 30 years, this journal has been at the interface of the science of information and the art of
nursing, publishing articles on the latest developments in nursing informatics, research, and
educational technology.
 CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing serves to advance the science of nursing informatics through
peer-reviewed, evidence-based, original research and information from clinical and educational
settings, to promote the specialty by disseminating information about relevant professional nursing
informatics activities, and to provide a resource for all involved in the implementation and
management of health information technology within the nursing and healthcare practice.
 It connects you with colleagues as they share knowledge on implementation of electronic health
records systems, design decision-support systems, incorporate evidence-based healthcare in
practice, explore point-of-care computing in practice and education, and conceptually integrate
nursing languages and standard data sets.
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
 Is a fully refereed journal examining current trends and developments in mental health practice
and research, and provides a forum for the exchange of ideas on all issues of relevance to mental
health nursing. The journal informs readers of developments in mental health nursing practice and
research, directions in education and training, professional issues, management approaches, policy
development, ethical questions, theoretical inquiry, and clinical issues.

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

 An open access journal encompassing all aspects of intensive care medicine, such as intensive and
critical care, trauma and surgical intensive care, pediatric intensive care, acute and emergency
medicine, perioperative medicine, resuscitation, infection control and organ dysfunction. In
addition, the journal encourages submissions considering the different cultural aspects of intensive
care practice.
 The aims of Intensive and Critical Care Nursing are to promote excellence of care of critically ill
patients by specialist nurses and their professional colleagues; to provide an international and
interdisciplinary forum for the publication, dissemination and exchange of research findings,
experience and ideas; to develop and enhance the knowledge, skills, attitudes and creative thinking
essential to good critical care nursing practice.
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