Nurs 5052/Nurs 6052: Essentials Of Evidence-Based Practice Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice

  I have been a nurse for about five years. I currently work in a orthopedics, trauma, neurological unit.As a new nurse starting out, I was learning how to care for post-surgical total hips and knee patients.During this period most of the interventions such as Continuous Passive Motion (CPM) were done because “this is what we are supposed to do” instead of “this is what the research shows is best for our patient’s.”We told our patient’s that they had a catheter, and we would dangle them on the edge of bed the evening of their surgery, but they would not get