Table 3

Adoption of the 8 research-based practices (n = 248)

Practice

Aware (%¹)

Persuaded (%¹)

Use (%²)

Mean TIAB (SD)³

No. Regions with P&Ps (n = 6)

Never

Sometimes

Always

Flushing PIVs

89.1%

86.7%

13.4%

11.8%

74.8%

3.38 (1.24)

4

Urinary Catheter Care

87.5%

86.7%

11.4%

17.5%

71.1%

3.34 (1.22)

4

Compression Stockings

89.1%

83.5%

18.3%

59.6%

22.1%

2.76 (1.10)

2

Hyperoygenating

78.6%

79.4%

36.2%

25.1%

38.7%

2.61 (1.47)

4

CHG for IV Insertion

67.3%

65.3%

38.3%

16.5%

45.2%

2.40 (1.73)

2

Post-op Opiod Admin

66.1%

62.5%

36.4%

46.6%

17.0%

2.10 (1.44)

1

NG Tube Placement

34.7%

23.0%

91.5%

6.5%

2.0%

0.68 (1.03)

2

Closed Enteral Feeding

12.9%

23.8%

92.2%

3.7%

4.1%

0.47 (1.00)

0

¹% = Percentage of nurses who were aware and persuaded of the practice

²% = Percentage of nurses who were never, sometimes, and always used the practice, of those who did not rate the practice as not applicable to their clinical unit

³Mean TIAB (SD) = mean TIAB score and standard deviation associated with each of the identified practices. The mean TIAB score was calculated as the average of the sum of awareness (0 – 1) + persuasion (0 – 1) + use (0 – 2). (Possible range: 0 – 4).

Stage of adoption was classified according to the following scale: 0 – 0.49 (unaware), 0.5 – 1.49 (aware), 1.5 – 2.49 (persuasion), 2.5 – 3.49 (use sometimes), and 3.5 – 4.0 (use always)

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