Social workers use practice experience to inform scientific inquiry and use research evidence to inform practice. As with the social work practitioner, social work educators also experience ethically-based challenges in relation to EBP. NASW and CSWE clearly promote an evidence-based focus in both social work practice and education.
Some drug infusion pumps are external and can be used in the hospital and at home. Others are surgically implanted into the patient. Drug infusion pumps can be used to deliver a number of drugs and fluids. Some of the more common uses include: 1  providing high-risk patients with critical fluids and nutrients. 2  delivering antibiotics (the majority of external drug infusion pumps administer antibiotics). 3  delivering pain relieving drugs -- pumps administering these types of drugs are often called pain pumps or anesthetic infusion pumps.
The user interface of pumps usually requests details on the type of infusion from the technician or nurse that sets them up: 1  Continuous infusion usually consists of small pulses of infusion, usually between 500 nanoliters and 10 milliliters, depending on the pump's design, with the rate of these pulses depending on the programmed infusion speed.