Jed Duff1
1Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Nursing and Midwifery Research Centre, Herston QLD 4029
Despite the available research to inform practice, many patients still fail to receive evidence-based care. Several models have been developed to guide clinicians through the steps in the evidence-based practice (EBP) process, yet these models have not been uniformly adopted or consistently applied in Australia. This presentation will highlight the significant evidence-practice gaps that plague healthcare and describe in detail one contemporary method for updating practice with evidence. The Iowa Model is one of the most used EBP models, globally. The strengths of the model include its intuitive design; the incorporation of practitioner and organisational perspectives; and its broad applicability to different academic and clinical settings.
Biography:
Jed Duff is Professor and Chair of Nursing at Royal Brisbane and Woman’s Hospital. He develops, tests, and implements strategies to improve the uptake of evidence into practice; designs and runs multidisciplinary practice-based research; and mentors staff in evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and research. Jed describes himself as a ‘pracademic’ – someone who helps solve real-world problems by combining the views of practitioners and academics. Jed is an emerging leader in implementation science. He completed a PhD in the field in 2013. From 2014-2016, he was an NHMRC Translating Research into Practice Fellow. In 2019, he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to research evidence-based practice models in the US. Jed is a facilitator of the gold standard implementation science training program- the Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (TIDIRH).