Evidence Based Practice

This assignment will be set around evidence based practice (EBP) and the nursing part of EBP will be discussed throughout this essay. There will be two parts to this discussion, part 1 will be a clinical question chosen personally, and being researched through the internet using a variety of databases. The end result will then be discussed on how the question performed, and whether it was either easy to research or changes had to be made gain greater or less results. Below is the clinical research question that was chosen personally.
The clinical research question: “Do silver dressings work on healing ulcer wounds or is there other dressings that show greater results”? Researching this question, Ovid was used. 687 results appeared, this was too high of a result. So the research question was reworded “Are Silver dressings more effective than other dressings on open wounds”? Again using Ovid, on an advanced search, this yielded 0 results. The question was then rephrased to, “Is there supporting evidence that silver dressings work on the healing of ulcer wounds?” 350 results appeared which was just over half the results I obtained from the first research question. However, this was okay but still a little too much. After this a different database was tried, the CINAHL database, on this research the question had been broken down into words; silver dressings supporting evidence, healing open wounds, this yielded 0 results. Ovid was the best site to ask this research question as even though the results were too much, I still had a good amount of hits, as for the CINAHL database this did not show any results. Therefore, Ovid does show to be a good research database.
When researching this question, it was not clear enough, the question needed to be a bit more thorough when written, the results reflected off this by achieving 687 results and 350 on Ovid. Ovid was used first as it is a well-known website, which is also a database used widely for nursing and medical