Discuss how evidence-based practice is applied in your practice setting and describe the desired patient outcome achieved through this approach.…
In the article, Back to Basics: Implementing Evidence- based Practice, the author, Lisa Spruce (2015), explains that health care is transitioning from volume based to value-based care. In order to create this value-based care, we need to put into action, evidence based practice (Spruce, 2015). Evidence based practice takes into consideration effectiveness by using research, patient preference and clinic experience, as well as cost-effectiveness (Spruce, 2015). When using this type of practice, a clinician is more likely to follow policy if they are able to understand and explain why they follow certain procedures, instead of just complying to a rule because it is a rule (Spruce, 2015).…
The nursing practice heavily relies on the evidence based clinical information to determine current standards of practice within the nursing scope of practice. A multitude of informational journals and peer reviewed articles are readily available to help guide…
A number of studies reveal that the advantages of implementing evidence-based practice by nurses and other health professional’s results in the advancement quality of care that leads to enhanced patient outcomes. Furthermore, the current use of evidence-based in the clinical setting would result in increased patient outcome since the evidence-based practice includes multidisciplinary recommendations that could facilitate all nurses in addressing questions related to the best patient care.…
Evidence-based practice is an anticipated core experience of all health care clinicians irrespective of position. Role modeling and participating in the skills are necessary to develop evidence-based practice into clinical and nonclinical courses and also an important part in developing positive attitudes toward evidence-based practice, that’s the first step for using evidence to guide practice decisions (Winters). One way to accelerate EBP In health care organizations are by obtaining support from entire culture. Advance practice and staff nurses as well as administrators must have the knowledge and have to believe about the importance of EBP and provide critical skills to support evidence-based care. The knowledge of nursing is built on a…
Nursing research is used everyday in nursing thru evidence-based practice. Evidence-based practice is used to make clinical decisions by using the best possible evidence garnered through liable sources( Attree,M. 2007). An Rn is always learning with thru textbooks,continuing education, and policy. This research allows the Rn to integrate evidence-based practice into their patient care. It is important that the Rn stays update on research so that she is giving the best possible care to her patients. For example most nurses think it is important to put a patient in trendelenburg for hypotension, but is proving in new research shows that there is no improvement in blood pressure with this use. This is an example of new research and improving patient…
This week the discussion focuses on why research and evidenced-based practice are important to the nursing profession.…
The definition of Evidence Based Practice (EBP) is “professional understanding and action that is based on the thoughtful use of knowledge and information from available, reliable, and dependent sources” (Brown, 2002). The definition also includes the balance of clinical experience, proven evidence from scientific studies with patient input. This input from patients will incorporate their culture, values and other preferences.. Evidence Based Practice is a fluent process that requires nurses to be current and correct on information as it pertains to their daily practice. The intent of EBP is to improve the quality of the care that is delivered to the client. This increased knowledge, whether it is correct or incorrect, is a motivating factor for nursing professionals to have current and correct information available when working with clients in making healthcare decisions. Healthcare professionals, especially nurses, are the touch point of health care and are the key to cost effective quality care. To ensure that decisions are based on sound information nurses must utilize EBR.…
With the administrative constraints currently encountered in the healthcare system, such as, increased heath care costs and strained funding, health care providers are responsible for providing care that is efficient, competent and informed by current research (Sirkka, Larsson-Lund & Zingmark, 2014). Evidence based practice (EBP) has been correlated with improved client outcomes and a reduction in healthcare costs (Upton, Stephens, Williams & Scurlock-Evans, 2014). EBP has been defined as the synthesis of current research evidence, clinical reasoning, and client contribution (Thomas, Saroyan & Lajoie, 2012). The client is an integral part in EBP as he/she is an expert in his/her own occupation and therefore provides expertise in determining occupational performance issues, as well as guiding the intervention process (Townsend & Polatajko, 2013). OTs provide expert knowledge on the interaction between the client, environment, and occupation. OTs are aware of the factors required to facilitate therapeutic occupational engagement. In addition to the information provided by the client, they use their expertise to facilitate the client in identifying and prioritizing occupational performance issues (Townsend & Polatajko, 2013). EBP is comprised of five steps. These steps provide a pathway for clinical reasoning for the provision of client care.…
Kitson, a., Harvey, G., McCormack, B., (1998). Enabling the implementation of evidence based practice: a conceptual framework. Quality in Health Care, 7, 149-158. doi: 10.1136/qshc.7.3.149…
As the healthcare industry is making rapid advance, many health organizations are faced with new methods and procedures in regards to quality care. Evidence-based practice can be defined as decisions that are made based off of previous knowledge and research. The combination of clinical expertise and evidence gained through clinical research results in the method of evidence-based practice (Atkins, Fink & Slutsky 2005).…
The trend towards chronic disease management provided by nurses utilizing evidence based practice (EBP) has increased, however barrier for acceptance for nurses as a care team member continues. A pilot study reported by Laughlin and Beisel (2010) reported the evolution, acceptance and barriers of nurses in a primary care setting as a member of the treatment team providing chronic disease management. In addition the study focused attention on the skill sets nurses utilizes to provide care of chronic conditions, emphasized the nurse being uniquely qualified to assess the needs of patients with chronic illness, the nurses ability to formulate a plan of care and facilitate coordination of care (p. 414). Although nurses have the experience and…
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is an interdisciplinary approach to clinical practice that has been gaining ground following its formal introduction in 1992. It started in medicine as evidence-based medicine (EBM) and spread to other fields such as dentistry, nursing, psychology, education, library and information science and other fields. Its basic principles are that all practical decisions made should 1) be based on research studies and 2) that these research studies are selected and interpreted according to some specific norms characteristic for EBP. Typically such norms disregard theoretical and qualitative studies and consider quantitative studies according to a narrow set of criteria of what counts as evidence. If such a narrow set of…
Nowadays for all health care professional including nurses Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is an expected core competency irrespective of discipline. EBP is necessary to integrate the best research with clinical expertise and patient value to establish best health outcomes (Winters & Echeverri, 2012). This essay will describe concise outline of Evidence based practice. Further it will discuss necessity of EBP into nursing practice and how EBP will helpful to improve the quality of care. The possible role of EBP in nursing will be explored. In addition it will identify some barriers of EBP which a nurse has to take in consideration during practice which need to be explored. However, there is still need to further research and evaluation of new…
The field of nursing is always improving and evolving. It is progressively moving forward as new information and research fuel our ability to provide proper patient care. In fact, I have seen the field change and develop in more ways than I can shake a stick. One of the most profound differences came with the inundation of technology and the connectivity of the internet. Never before has the patient been able to access so much information at their fingertips, or have medical professionals had such unprecedented access to patient records and global resources along with cutting edge techniques.…