ASKING QUESTIONS – IMPROVING PRACTICE
Abstract
Are you translating existing research into your perioperative practice or finding that you have unanswered questions related to perioperative patient care? Chulay’s framework offers a detailed and understandable method for perioperative nurses without a research background to become involved in questioning, and thereby influencing, perioperative patient care.
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