Welcome to JBI COnNECT
Connecting the best available international evidence to the point-of-care
Introducing JBI COnNECT
The midwifery node of JBI COnNECT is a unique web based facility that provides online resources and tools to assist clinicians involved in midwifery care, and women, children and their families to utilise evidence-based information in clinical decision making processes.
The midwifery node is a user-friendly collection of online resources designed to inform and assist:
- the users of midwifery services (women and children);
- service providers (managers of midwifery facilities); and
- clinicians involved in midwifery care (nurses, medical practitioners and allied health professionals);
JBI COnNECT is essentially a "one-stop-shop" stocked with a wide range of resources for facilitating effective and appropriate evidence-based midwifery care.
The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) has a well-established reputation in the area of evidence-based clinical decision support and clinical practice improvement and has provided a resource which assists users to summarise, disseminate and utilise the best evidence available.
This node of JBI COnNECT is designed for, and readily accessible to, midwifery professionals and providers and service users. The resources address aspects of clinical care relevant to the care of women and children in midwifery facilities. The resources enhance the ability of clinicians involved in midwifery care to provide consistent and appropriate care, while reducing the risk of clinical adverse events. The resources also facilitate staff training and continuous improvement within the midwifery sector.
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Evidence-based midwifery - or "Best Practice" - is care that is based on the best available international evidence. Midwifery facilities and professionals - doctors, nurses and allied health professionals who are committed to evidence-based best practice collaborate with women, children and their families to make decisions about care and treatment based on the outcomes of a vast array of research and information generated across the world and published in books, scientific and professional journals, and government and professional association reports. Bringing together the findings and recommendations of this enormous (and growing!) information base, international organisations such as the Cochrane Collaboration; the Campbell Collaboration; and the Joanna Briggs Institute invest time, expertise and resources searching and synthesising this booming information source to support the clinical decision making of health professionals and to assist the users of services to make informed choices. Evidence-based organisations or professionals engage in the six essential steps of evidence-based midwifery:
- Searching for the Evidence
- Appraising the Evidence
- Summarising the Evidence
- Embedding the Evidence in Practice and in Systems
- Utilising (using) the Evidence
- Evaluating the Evidence
The midwifery node of JBI COnNECT consists of a range of resources developed by JBI for users of and professionals working in the midwifery sector to search, appraise, summarise, embed and utilise the best available international evidence:
JBI COnNECT searches the evidence for its users - and gives access to a wide range of databases for users to search. JBI COnNECT also gives access to JBI RAPid to assist users to appraise the evidence - and access to the JBI Evidence Review Network:
Users of JBI COnNECT can also access summarised evidence; tools to embed evidence in their operating systems; tools to implement evidence; and tools to evaluate the impact of using evidence on patient outcomes:
This node is part of JBI COnNECT (COnNECT standing for Clinical Online Network of Evidence for Care and Therapeutics) - a gateway to everything consumers and providers need to become informed service users, evidence-based organisations or evidence-based practitioners.
JBI COnNECT is the gateway to specialist online services for midwifery - and for a wide range of health care specialities and professions.
The midwifery node of JBI COnNECT is designed to meet the needs of the midwifery sector.
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