title: Evidence-based practice and the home care nurse's bag.
abstract: How safe is the home care nurse's bag anyway? What kind of precautions and procedures should an agency and nurses adopt to ensure that contamination does not occur? This article uses the evolving theory of evidence-based practice to suggest the best approaches to these challenging questions.
authors.affiliation: Harborside Health Care, Beachwood Ohio, USA.
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Madigan
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015400:Clinical Nursing Research; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D004866:Equipment Contamination / Q000517:prevention & control*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors