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Hello everyone, my name is Brenda Hollingsworth and I am currently a resident of Delaware. Nice to meet you all. I am currently enrolled in the Clinical Nurse Leader track at Drexel.  I am an Emergency Room RN at the only Level I Trauma Center in DE and have been a nurse for 2 1/2 years. I absolutely love what I do and enjoy the busy environment I work in because it helps me stay alert and think outside the box. On most days I work on "empty" fuel but the environment allows me to keep the energy going off adrenaline which can sometimes be enough.
My work environment is surrounded by Evidence Based Practice. For example, out contamination rates for collection of blood cultures were high for the ED. As a member of the Evidence Based Council, we collected evidence on how our nurses were collecting blood cultures. We compared our numbers with the phlebotomy department and found many errors in the collection of these cultures.  After review of evidence in practice, educating our nursing and providing the evidence, we were able to get our contamination rates lower than benchmark numbers which allowed us to provided safe care to our patients.
In this course, I hope to learn how to select good, solid evidence based articles that will help me write my final paper. Unfortunately, writing a good scholarly paper has been my challenge but I am getting better at it.
"WILD CARD"  ---- I want to share that I am a proud PUERTO RICAN native. I am heart-broken about what my people in Puerto Rico are going through now.  However, I have hope that Puerto Rico will rise again to be that beautiful, majestic island that it once was. My last living grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins still live there and until this morning I finally heard from them.  I am thankful that they are doing ok, they lost lots of materialistic things that can be replaced, but they are alive and well.
Below is a picture of the Puerto Rican flag at one of the most beautiful beaches in Aguadilla, PR known as "Crashboat Beach," a picture of my 87 year old grandma cutting fresh oregano from her land, and a picture of myself at the south west corner of the island called "Cabo Rojo."

I look forward to having a successful school semester and wish you all the best.

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Hello everyone, my name is Mykella Carter. 1) I was born and raised in Connecticut- currently residing in Connecticut for now. Previously I have lived in Maryland for several years and loved it. Currently, I work as registered nurse in two emergency department- one is a level 2 trauma center, the other is  a community hospital in Westchester County, NY. 2) My current education track is the Clinical Nurse Leader for CNHP. Previously completed the Forensic Trends certificate here at Drexel.
3) My experience with EBP is minimal despite working in Magnet facility. My facilities implement EBP in different ways but as stated in the text- it does take time to implement to change current practice. 4) I hope to learn more about how to form appropriate research questions and continue to advance my knowledge on how to utilize the various search engines such as CINAHL, Medline, Conchrane, etc- even know they can be intimidating for a novice researcher.
5) My concerns for this course is being able to keep up with the assignments and meeting the guidelines. I am also taking another course this quarter which also has its assignments so it will be a challenging quarter. My most recent vacation was to Myrtle Beach for my brother's wedding and before that was Europe for the first. I enjoy traveling and learning about different cultures and histories when I am not in class. Look forward to working with all of you.

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My name is Michelle Shabazz. I am from the Virginia Beach, Virginia. I work as a bedside nurse on a vascular intermediate care unit in my region’s only Level I Trauma Magnet Hospital. My graduate educational track is the Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner. As an employee of a Magnet Hospital, we integrate the use of evidence based practice into our clinical practice. It improves patient care outcomes.

I hope to gain more insight into the evidence based process. I am concerned with beginning and applying the concepts we will learn into our PICOT paper. I am hoping that I stay on track with the expectations of the course. I am sure that I fall in line with most of the class in that in addition to being a student, I am also a wife and mother. I have 3 children that are 7 years apart; they are 8, 15, and 22 years old. I enjoy spending time with my family and traveling. I have attached a video clip of my son jumping into a pool from our villa during our last vacation in Jamaica. The view was amazing!!!

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Greetings everyone and welcome to RSCH 504. Fall in the Great Smokey Mountains (from where I teach) is so very beautiful. I often walk my dog, Smoke, on such deep woods trails as shown here..

I am looking forward to working with each of you toward a very fulfilling PICOT project paper.

Please be certain to answer these 5 questions:

1) Your name and geographical location

2) What is your current area of practice and what educational Track you are currently in at CNHP

3) What (if any) is your experience and level of expertise with Evidence Based Practice (*some students come from facilities or jobs with significant exposure/experience and others have no encounters with EBP at all.  EITHER is just fine! This question just gives me some insight into the various levels of experience)

4). What do you hope to learn/glean from this course?

5) What concerns or apprehensions do you have about taking a research course such as this?

Also, as we are building a community, please feel free to post one of your favorite photos. For example, this is a photo of a trip to Bolivia in 2011 with a team from Drexel CNHP. Since I am a forensic scientitst, my role was to work with psychologists, prosecutors and judges regarding enhanced assessment of children exposed to sexual violence.  Here I am working with children in the school room of their Domestic Violence Shelter/compound (located at over 12 thousand feet in the Andes mountain range!).

I look forward to learning more about each of you.

"See" you in class,
Dr. C

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Hello everyone! My name is Miranda Bostic and I’m 27 years old. I live in Jacksboro, TN in the Appalachian Mountains. My location is about 40 miles north of Knoxville, TN (GO VOLS)! I’m currently a registered nurse at a large community mental health center in Knoxville, TN. I have been a registered nurse for 6 years. I’m currently attending Drexel for my MSN concentrating in psychiatric nurse practitioner. I’m experience with EBP is fair. Everything new that we implement in to policy is always supported by EBP in some form. I hope to learn more about EBP and specifically more about critically appraising research so that I will be able to implement the latest EBP in to my own practice one I’m practicing as a nurse practitioner. The one thing that I’m apprehensive about in this course is the statistical portions of research and the different type of calculations/formulas used in research. My “wild card” would be that I’m married, with 2 children. My son is 4 years old and my daughter is 10 months old. I’m also transferring back in to inpatient psych in a few weeks for my first role in leadership. I will be an administrative supervisor so learning more about EBP will be helpful for me. I’m looking forward to the quarter. I’ve attached of photo of my family!

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"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try" -JFK

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"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try" -JFK

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My name is Jonathan Day. I'm in the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse practitioner Program. I decided to become a nurse a long time ago (I was one of the first cohorts of ACE students to graduate from Drexel). Prior to earning my BSN, my first degree was a BA in Psychology with a minor in Cognitive Neuroscience which I completed here in Philadelphia, PA at Temple University. I graduated from Temple in 2000 and I loved Philly so much that I decided to stay. While here, I've worked for 12 years in our nations first hospital-Pennsylvania Hospital. I spent 10 years working in the locked Acute Inpatient Psychiatric unit and then another 2 years in their Neuro ICU. 5 years ago I left the hospital to work further upstream in healthcare; I accepted the position of Behavioral Health Nurse Specialist at the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbilities (DBHIDS). I'm taking this course because I hold myself
(and my profession) to the highest standards of excellence in medicine. To me this means knowing the latest and greatest research and knowing how to put it into practice.  I'm fortunate to be supported by my wife (who also works in medicine) and my 10yo daughter-both of whom deserve credit for putting up with me while I try to work full-time and complete this program. Thanks for taking the time to read this. Best of luck to you all. Let's make this a great quarter... Cheers!

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My Name is Emily Sturdy and I live just outside Washington DC. I am currently working as a Travel RN for a Large Health System in the DC area. I currently work in Cath Labs, Intervention Radiology Labs both vascular and cerebrovascular, PACUs, and Emergency Departments. I am in the Innovation Degree pathway with a concentration in Informatics.  I have little experience with Evidence Based Practice (EBP) other than with my classes at Drexel. With the Cath lab we utilized it often with standardizing our protocols that have be developed from EBP. I hope to gain a better understanding and comfort of being able to synthesize and utilize EBP into my everyday clinical practice from this course.  I did not have a great experience with RSCH 503 and am hoping that this course will not dissuade me from future forms of research in the future.  I do feel like it is important to noted that it was not the subject matter that diminished by experience in RSCH 503. With the way the assignments are set up this course I have a feeling that the issues I experienced will not be an issue.  Something of note about myself is that I love the outdoors and you will find me outside whenever possible.  I even managed to convince my other half (whom avoids outside at all costs) to go tent camping earlier this month.  Below is a photo from that wonderful weekend!  I look forward to getting to know all of you throughout this course!

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Hello everyone. My name is Doug Hurley and I live in Moorestown, NJ (south Jersey). Not to be confused with the “Jersey shore” area :) I am currently an ICU nurse enrolled in the Nurse Anesthesia program at Our Lady of Lourdes. The majority of my experience with EBP has originated from my Drexel education (undergrad as well) and previous research courses. I have utilized the skills learned in evaluating evidence to form a basis for personal practice within the OR. Other than that, I have not participated in any unit based or system wide application of EBP. Hopefully this course will give me the knowledge to participate in such a project in the future. I tend to be a “slow writer,” and time is always a concern and source of anxiety with taking a course like this. Unfortunately, this is nothing new. I have 2 children (2 ½ y/o and a 1y/o) and my wife is due this December. Between family, school, and still a little bit of work, there’s no time for much else! Look forward to learning with everyone.

Doug

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Hello everyone! My name is Ashley Gbemudu and I am currently commuting between Philadelphia and the suburbs of Washington, D.C. I currently work as a pre/post-surgical abdominal organ transplant nurse. My unit also specializes in bariatric surgery. I am currently enrolled in the Master’s in Nursing in Health Systems Management track. As a Drexel alum (undergrad) and now in grad school at Drexel, I would say that my level of exposure to Evidence Based Practice is pretty high. I also work within a health system that prides itself on using EBP in everything that we do. However, when it comes to actually formulating my own thinking and disseminating my research on EBP, I lack confidence. I hope to gain better understanding on how to properly understand EBP independently and also be able to communicate what I learn with my peers, effectively. My apprehensions about taking a research class such as this is that it will disrupt my normal way of critically thinking. It will expand my knowledge beyond what I am used to and push me to a place of discomfort; however I know only true growth will come from this.

Wild card: I am currently planning a wedding for September of next year, hence my commute between two places. He lives in the D.C. area and I live in Philly but for him, I will gladly make the move (very soon, I might add).

Looking forward to a successful term!

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Hi everyone, my name is Julie St-Merand and I am in Northern NJ. I was born, raised, and settled in NJ (minus a small stint in PA a few years.) I graduated from Penn State with my BSN and have been a nurse for 7 years. I am currently an IVF nurse and in the past worked in neurology and labor&delivery. I am in the Women's Health NP track. I would say I have novice expertise with EBP. I have completed many research papers in undergrad. Likewise, the hospitals I have worked for were all teaching institutions that provided lots of professional development opportunities, including clinical research projects, and protocols were implemented utilizing EBP. My current facility does monthly journal clubs in which we take turns sharing articles on reproductive medicine in order to keep the conversation "current" and when applicable adjust our policies. All that being said, although I am exposed to EBP and understand how it guides western medicine, I would still consider myself a novice. I believe this course will help me enhance research skills and understand "clinical significance" in terms of study results and revision to policies. I would not say I am apprehensive about the actual course at all but just with the work load the self discipline to stay afloat. I love to travel and have been many places (internationally). And yet, I had never been anywhere west of Pennsylvania until lately. Domestically I still haven't, but here is a picture from last month in Alberta. I found it so breathtaking  and open compared to the metro area I live in. I can't wait to visit more western states! Good luck to everyone in your programs!!!

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My name is Brandon.  I live in Las Vegas, NV and work for the State of Nevada as a psychiatric nurse.  Mainly, I work in a forensic hospital with patients who have been deemed incompetent to stand trial.  The goal is to restore these patients to competency so they are able to stand trial for their charges.  Occasionally I get floated to a civil inpatient psychiatric unit or crisis unit.  I work part time for the Air Force Reserves as a mental health nurse. Currently, I'm enrolled in the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner program and my goal is to eventually work for the VA.

My experience so far with evidenced based practice is fairly limited. I've done improvement projects as part of school assignments and on a few occasions I've assisted the nursing education department implementing or training staff regarding an evidence based change.  Recently, the civil hospital began an improvement project to remove 4 point restraints from the hospital and it is currently being tested on one unit. Overall, I feel I have a fair grasp on the concepts of evidence based practice but limited experience in real world implementations.

I hope to gain an improved understanding of how to implement evidence based practice in the real world and improved evidence evaluation techniques.

My main concern is being able to manage my time efficiently when doing research and evaluating evidence.

For my wild card, I'm married and I have a 2 year old daughter.  My wife and daughter keep me very busy!  As a side note I've been very fortunate with my job and I will be hard pressed to leave even after I complete my MSN.

I hope everyone has a great quarter and is successful!

Sincerely,

Brandon

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My name is Yun Mi and I reside in Philadelphia, PA. I was born in South Korea, however, I have lived on the East Coast almost my entire life. My family and I moved here when I was a child. I have one brother who lives in San Francisco and I am contemplating moving to SF when I am older. I currently practice in the Operating Room at a level one trauma center. My nursing career has consisted of caring for the geriatric, psychiatric, orthopedic, and trauma patient population. I originally began graduate school enrolled in the Family NP track, but then switched to the PMHNP (Mental Health) track. I made the decision to switch because I wanted to be more specialized in caring for psychiatric patients. I will be starting clinical in the summer of 2018 and I am very excited about this.

I work for a university hospital system and evidence-based practice is supported and encouraged. My unit does not directly have an EBP committee, but there is a hospital committee that is made up of all units. I do hope to learn more about research, the methods, and how to identify quality research from this course. I have always found research to be a bit intimidating due to the overwhelming number of data that is available in each study. It also becomes challenging to sufficiently identify research that is credible and trustworthy to apply to current practices. As far as any apprehensions about the course… the PICOT paper is something that I can see being challenging. I am not familiar with this type of paper, but I do hope that the lessons from course--(research) 503 and any future lessons will help in preparing for this paper.

The picture below is of my six-month-old puppy. He is a rescue from South Carolina and he is the best stress reliever after a long day at work. This is my first time ever having a dog in the family and I honestly don’t know how I went my entire life without a pup. I wish everyone a great quarter and it is very nice to meet everyone!

-Yun Mi

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Hello Class!  My name is Janet Matthews and I have been a nurse for over 25 years. I currently work as a Research Nurse Coordinator in a large urban academic center in Philadelphia in the area of heart failure and transplant. I am presently enrolled in the Research Clinical Trials track at Drexel University. I am excited about this class however, I am apprehensive about interpreting relevant results accurately and presenting it in a paper.

My involvement with EBP comes with my current research position as I am helping to determine EBP with each trial. Not all research results positive outcomes however, this is the process to determine which practice sets the standard of EBP.

I hope to learn how to efficiently conduct a literature search for research and implement EBP it into my practice as research coordinator.

I am happily married and the mother of 3 daughters ages 19, 18 and 15.  While my oldest is currently enrolled in the BSN nursing program at Drexel and 2 are in high school. My favorite pastime is spending time with my family. As we all have busy schedules I treasure the moments even if it is for a quick dinner or a weekend get away to the beach. Below is a picture of my family.
I look forward to meeting everyone and wish everyone a successful and stress free quarter.

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Hi Class!
My name is Kym Schrader-(Xenidis) I reside in Wilmington, De and for the past 20 years I have been in the Home Health as an Infusion/Oncology nurse.  I am enrolled in the FNP program.

Our education and updates for policies and procedures are  always followed with "best practice".  I admit I questioned this at one point and was not given a proper answer.  We have a surge of masters prepared nurses and committees are being formed so I imagine as a large magnet facility there Evidence-Based Practice implemented.

I hope to be able to pick a great PICOT topic that is relative in my current employment and I can present that to the appropriate committee for a change. That is my goal however, in the past i have always chosen the topic less traveled and struggled with paper writing anxiety.  The past few days I have thrown around several topics and I am back the blank page of confusion.

The picture below is my daughters and I at Firefly, a musical event held yearly here in Delaware.  My oldest is a junior in college studying Biomedical Engineering and if all goes well we will graduate together.  My youngest is a pitcher on a travel softball team so needless to say I do homework at the softball fields.
Good Luck everyone!!

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Hello Everyone!                                My name is Donna Comire and I am from Conway New Hampshire, also know as the White Mountains. I currently work with adolescents in an Acute Psychiatric Hospital. I am in the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Tack.                              I have limited exposure to EBP, although my faculty uses it to write policies. I find research overwhelming, and I hope to learn how to find appropriate research articles that would help me in my future practice.             My apprehension about this course is writing the papers as well as retaining the knowledge. I struggle with writing, so that will be a challenge. I feel the courses are so fast passed that I often times feel like I can do the work but hope to retain what I have learned, so that I able to impliment it in my practice.                   I am known to have a very dry sense of humor, and love laughter. Nursing was not my first career choice. I have always wanted to be a clown, but the shoes were too big to fill!  My dry sense of humor can come in handy at work, from preventing a patient from escalating, to trying to make work for my coworkers as fun as I possible. I believe I day without laughter is a day wasted. I also care for a 91-year-old woman who has lived with my daughters who are 26 and 22.  This woman has lived with us for 26 years and is considered adult foster care, as she is developmentally disabled as well as having some psychiatric diagnosis.  The picture below is of me with my newest prescription glasses. I have bifocals and still cannot get used to them, so I thought I would try something different. I guess I will continue on my search for a better way to see, although the glasses below are stylish, they also hard do not improve my vision. 

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Hello Everyone!                                My name is Donna Comire and I am from Conway New Hampshire, also know as the White Mountains. I currently work with adolescents in an Acute Psychiatric Hospital. I am in the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Tack.                              I have limited exposure to EBP, although my faculty uses it to write policies. I find research overwhelming, and I hope to learn how to find appropriate research articles that would help me in my future practice.             My apprehension about this course is writing the papers as well as retaining the knowledge. I struggle with writing, so that will be a challenge. I feel the courses are so fast passed that I often times feel like I can do the work but hope to retain what I have learned, so that I able to impliment it in my practice.                   I am known to have a very dry sense of humor, and love laughter. Nursing was not my first career choice. I have always wanted to be a clown, but the shoes were too big to fill!  My dry sense of humor can come in handy at work, from preventing a patient from escalating, to trying to make work for my coworkers as fun as I possible. I believe I day without laughter is a day wasted. I also care for a 91-year-old woman who has lived with my daughters who are 26 and 22.  This woman has lived with us for 26 years and is considered adult foster care, as she is developmentally disabled as well as having some psychiatric diagnosis.  The picture below is of me with my newest prescription glasses. I have bifocals and still cannot get used to them, so I thought I would try something different. I guess I will continue on my search for a better way to see, although the glasses below are stylish, they also hard do not improve my vision. 

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Hello everyone, it's great to be here, I’m so excited to start another class after taking a few semesters off. My name is Shawn Cone and I live in a tiny little amazing town named Medford Lakes in Southern New Jersey. 22 lakes in 1.1 square miles and the children ride their bikes or walk to school as we have no school buses.

I currently work at a large urban teaching hospital in Philadelphia in electrophysiology research. I am fairly new to the role, but I am very excited about the field of research.

This is my fifth graduate class and I'm currently enrolled in the Clinical Trials Program and I am equally excited and nervous. I've been a nurse for nearly 30 years, graduating from Drexel with both my RN and BSN degrees. I started my career in the CT step down unit and moved to the CTICU and worked there for many years. I wanted a new challenge and made the move to the Electrophysiology Lab which seemed like an entirely new world to me.

I left nursing full time in 2000 to run our family business for nearly 15 years, remaining per diem in the Electrophysiology Lab (EP Lab) the entire time. I slowly learned that the grass isn't always greener on the other side. I really started to miss nursing full time and decided to leave the family business in 2014, yearning for a new challenge. I was offered a position in research and love it! I am lucky enough to still work per diem in the EP Lab and really enjoy my work life, especially the patient care.

I decided to enroll into the MSN Clinical Trials Research program at Drexel to both challenge myself as well as explore the fascinating world of nursing research, which I am still new at. I am looking forward to this class as I learned a great deal during my first few classes. I have little formal research training and I am eager to start this class and apply the knowledge I will receive in Evaluation and Translation of Health Research for Evidence Based Approaches to Practice.

As far as my experience with evidence based practice, I would have to honestly say that this is something that I am not too familiar with but excited to learn and explore. My concerns about the course is that as an older student some things just don’t come as easily as they used to.

A little bit about me. As I said before, I live Medford Lakes, NJ with my wife and two boys, ages 19 & 21. My oldest son is a Geoscience major, and my youngest is studying graphic design.

I am a HUGE fan of music, enjoying many (50+) concerts a year, backpacking, skiing, fly-fishing and time spent outdoors, especially in the mountains of New Hampshire. Our last few favorite vacations have been out west in Montana, Washington, Colorado, Oregon, and British Columbia. I look forward to working and collaborating with each and every one of you! Below is a picture of me and my family taken this summer in British Columbia. There was some mazing hiking out there for sure!

Looking forward to working with everyone!

Shawn

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My name is Karrie Marino.  I currently reside is South Jersey with my husband and 4 children.  I have worked in Labor and Delivery for over 10 years and for the past 5 years in an OB/GYN practice.
I am currently in the WHNP track with Drexel.  Loving it so far!

I have some experience with EBP in both jobs.  In my current position, we do a lot of education with pregnant mothers.  The education they receive is based off of EBP.

I hope to gain proficiency in finding appropriate research material.  I feel it is overwhelming at times.  There is so much to sift throught.
I am not the best writer and because of this takes me forever to complete an assignment.  Hopefully since this course seems well structured, I can improve!

The photo below is one that was taken this summer at the Chesapeake Inn.  We have a boat and like to take it out many times throughout the warm months.  Best of luck to you all!!

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Hi Class!

My name is Ashley Sammaritano and I live and work in Philadelphia. For the last three and half years, I've worked in a large hospital on a surgical step down unit. I am currently enrolled in the Family Nurse Practitioner program.

On my unit, we have EBP committees such as the catheter associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) committee, which I am actively involved with. We also have hospital-wide core councils such as the Research Core Council and Practice Core Council, which I am involved with who use and apply EBP.

I hope to be able to search the literature more effectively to find EBP articles and continue to gain the knowledge to critically analyze these articles.

I find research exciting, but there is a lot I am apprehensive about. I find it challenging to sift through all the literature to find the most useful articles and then effectively critiquing the evidence can be cumbersome.

I am excited to start this quarter. Besides going to school part time, I enjoy hot yoga and cooking healthy meals!

This is a picture of my friend and I after we finished the Philly half marathon last year!

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My name is Austin Reed and I live in the suburbs of Phoenix, AZ.  I am originally from Allentown, PA and moved to Arizona four years ago.  Currently I am a Nurse Case Manager at a hospital in Phoenix.  Prior to working in case management I had worked primary in psychiatric facilities.  I am in the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner track at Drexel and am becoming more and more excited in my journey towards becoming a nurse practitioner.

I have a lot of experience in evidenced based practice, starting my career at a magnet facility in Pennsylvania.  Evidence based practice was the mantra of our health system and we used it successfully to improve patient care.  Notably we were able to greatly reduce restraint usage in our behavioral health programs.  During my time in managed care, working for a large health insurer, we utilized evidence based guidelines in performing utilization review.

I hope to learn strategies to quickly and efficiently search and review quality evidence based literature.  Research has always felt very daunting and overwhelming for me.  I plan on working through that as I go through the course and develop more confidence surrounding research.

I enjoy traveling and exploring the natural wonders of Arizona.  I am including a picture of my partner, myself, and my sister (I am in the middle).

Good luck to all for a successful quarter!

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Hi Dr. Clements and my fellow classmates,	Let me introduce myself. My name is Ahmed Tayel. I am going into my fifth class here at Drexel University. I am from Middlesex county of New Jersey. I am currently enrolled in the Acute Care Nurse Adult/Geo Practitioner track. I have been working in a University Hospital in the Cardiothoracic Unit in an ICU. My facility deals with evidence based practice on a daily basis. We are always advancing new products on our patient to promote a better outcome in order to provide the best quality of care.  My goal for this class to learn a lot more about research and how it will help implement it into my practice. Also, I’m hoping this class will further my education in my track and help me excel in my career. My biggest apprehension for this class is the research paper and the style of thinking for this class. I know it's a different type of thinking and hope I will learn from this experience here.  As far as the research paper goes, I usually have a hard time with it, but from this class, I hoping to get better at it in order to manage it for effectively especially that its broken down.  I want show you guys a special part from  me and my wife. We recently got married this past year and bought a house. This is a pic of our house blessing we had this past year. I wish everyone good luck and hope to learn from your experience. 

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Hi Dr. Clements and my fellow classmates,	Let me introduce myself. My name is Ahmed Tayel. I am going into my fifth class here at Drexel University. I am from Middlesex county of New Jersey. I am currently enrolled in the Acute Care Nurse Adult/Geo Practitioner track. I have been working in a University Hospital in the Cardiothoracic Unit in an ICU. My facility deals with evidence based practice on a daily basis. We are always advancing new products on our patient to promote a better outcome in order to provide the best quality of care.  My goal for this class to learn a lot more about research and how it will help implement it into my practice. Also, I’m hoping this class will further my education in my track and help me excel in my career. My biggest apprehension for this class is the research paper and the style of thinking for this class. I know it's a different type of thinking and hope I will learn from this experience here.  As far as the research paper goes, I usually have a hard time with it, but from this class, I hoping to get better at it in order to manage it for effectively especially that its broken down.  I want show you guys a special part from  me and my wife. We recently got married this past year and bought a house. This is a pic of our house blessing we had this past year. I wish everyone good luck and hope to learn from your experience. 

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Hi Everyone!

My name is Erin McCafferty and I am joining the class from South Jersey - my fiance and I recently bought a house and just moved in (talk about stressful!) I currently work at an inner city hospital in Labor and Delivery. I am in the MSN: Nursing Education track at Drexel (and am taking my final two classes before my practicum!).

I do have some exposure to EBP because at the facility I work at our policies are written based on it. However, I still have a lot to learn about EBP and in this course I hope to not only learn about EBP but how to implement it as well.

My apprehension for this course is writing a paper. It's been awhile since I had to write a research paper since my last few courses have been heavily "test-based." This being said, I like that the paper is broken down into sectioned assignments which I think will make it more manageable.

Below is one of my favorite pictures which was taken at Spruce Street Harbor Park in Philadelphia. I look forward to a great semester with everyone!