Evidence Based Nursing Practices

According to Roy L. Simpson, Evidence based nursing is the process by which nurses make clinical decisions using the best available research evidence, their clinical expertise, and patient preferences. Evidence base nursing emphasizes ritual, isolated and unsystematic clinical experiences, ungrounded opinions, and traditions as a basis for nursing practices, and stresses instead the use of research findings and quality improvement data, In order for its practice to be conducted successfully, nurses must first identify the issue or a problem by analyzing current nursing knowledge and practice, search the literature for relevant research about the issue or problem. Evaluate the evidence in the research using established criteria then act and
validate the action with the best available evidence.