title: [Project evaluation of nursing interventions: an algorithm to support the practice of clinicians].
abstract: It is recognized that nurses regularly have to adapt their clinical practice compared to new scientific breakthroughs. However, changes in practice are possible by the implementation of clinical projects but can sometimes be long and difficult to achieve in health care settings, given the context of care or the profile of the clientele, the care organization, work organization, etc. An algorithmic approach (i.e., sequence of actions) to support nurses in the evaluation of new nursing intervention projects, including other members of the interdisciplinary team, researchers, and patients and their relatives, has been developed. This algorithm considers the clinical environment in which the project will operationalize nursing interventions and involves five steps: 1) identification and description of a care problem to solve or a care practice to improve; 2) the development or adaptation of appropriate nursing intervention, and 3) the choice of evaluation design for this nursing intervention, and 4) testing of the intervention and 5) implementation and reflection on the process.
authors.affiliation: Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Faculté des sciences infirmières, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada. sylvie.dubois@umontreal.ca
authors.forename: Sylvie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dubois
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Larue
authors.forename: Véronique
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Dubé
authors.forename: Mélanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bérubé
authors.forename: Céline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gélinas
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006801:Humans; D015399:Nursing Research; D015397:Program Evaluation