Evidence Based Practice In Social Care

I wholeheartedly agree with your assertion that social workers and their ability to use evidence-based practices to benefit patients and their families experiencing emotional disturbances that accompany end of life bereavement. Evidence-based practice has the potential to improve the quality of care and enhance clinical judgment in serious and life-threatening illness. Hospice social workers must know how to obtain, interpret, and integrate the best available research evidence with patient data and clinical observations. Employers of hospice and palliative nurses also have an instrumental role to play in supporting evidence-based practice. Researchers from across healthcare disciplines must actively continue to expand the knowledge base about
what constitutes quality of care for persons with life limiting illnesses. It means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research. Evidence-based practice is a blending of patient values and preferences to determine the best care for the patient.