Implement Like an Expert is the last in a five-part series of the Advanced Nursing Academy to help you become an extraordinary nurse. Expert nurses recognize their innate abilities and build on them by integrating the best practices of other experts. By looking closely at the practice of your peers, you can learn how to:

• Think like an ED nurse
• Assess like an ICU nurse
• Organize like a Med-Surg nurse
• Connect like a psych nurse, and
• Implement like an expert.

Did you know that there is evidence that routine assessment of bowel sounds after abdominal surgery does not indicate return of bowel function?

And did you know that...
-Oxygen therapy after mild or moderate stroke isn’t helpful and can actually be harmful?
-Lasix can be used as a bronchodilator?
-Or, that touch, music and imagery can decrease mortality?

Imagine treating your patients with skill, based on research findings that support your technique. Imagine being able to find signs of complications and implement interventions to prevent them.

Your care is only as good as the evidence you use to base your practice on, and you can improve your care by finding better evidence and knowing how to interpret it.

Implement Like an Expert was designed to give you the knowledge and skills you need to confidently evaluate your care. No more guesswork. You will know what you are doing and why.

Implement Like an Expert includes the following programs on 6 audio CDs:

Evidence-based vs. Opinion-based Care: There is Strength in Numbers
Find out why most nursing care is based on tradition and the value of using evidence on which to base your practice.

A Scientific Approach to Nursing, Based on Evidence and Expert Opinion
Decrease complications and improve mortality; these are just some of the benefits your patients will enjoy from the care of the enlightened nurse.

Strategies to Keep Your Head Above the Sea of Research Literature
Use simple and easy methods to find and use the evidence.

Evaluating the Evidence: What Works and Why
Learn how to find, analyze, and interpret research.

Better Interventions Come from Better Information: Using EBP at the Bedside
Learn to navigate the system to create change at the bedside.

Painless Methods to Stay on the Cutting-Edge
Find out where the information is and how to readily access it.

What your peers are saying:

The way you present this material is phenomenal. I presently work in the ER and my practice is very good, and it's going to get even better. -TR, RN

I can't believe how you made the content so understandable! I really wanted to thank-you from the bottom of my heart for not assuming we all know the "basics." You simplified the information in such a way that it all came together, and really made sense. –SE, RN