A Tool for Quantifying Organizational Support for Evidence-based Practice Change

This article, A Tool for Quantifying Organizational Support for Evidence-based Practice Change in Journal of Nursing Care Quality 21(2):110-113, April-June 2006 by Mary Friel Fanning (fanningm@rcbbsc.wvu.edu) and Dororthy W Oakes describes the need for a tool to be used in quantifying the use of labor and nonlabor supplies in a nursing research program. The tool developed by these authors and their team at West Virginia University Hospitals, the Record of Contribution form may be useful to other healthcare leaders who wish to quantify their organization's committment to ongoing nursing research. Saint Joseph Hospital of Orange and CHOC staff may read the full text of this article by logging in to this journal via the library's web site.