The evidence-based practice is a clinical activity which is based on the belief that decision about the delivery of care to clients should be informed by the best available and current scientific evidence (Beanland et al 2011). So as a nurse it is important to understand why evidence based practice is essential when caring for a patient and to be able to apply the best possible evidence to each individual situation.…
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.…
In this section, students describe what worries them about current practice. They answer the question, what…
The focus of this assignment is to look at Evidence Based Practice (EBP), why it is important for nursing to be evidence based and the barriers to implementation of EBP.…
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…
Evidence-based practice (EBP) has been emphasized since the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s report “To Err Is Human”. Nurses should be able to not only provide standard care within the scope of practice but also deliver safe care based on the best EBP that is most up-to-date at that time. Furthermore, research is developed based on the current evidence-based practice. Research nurses work on new projects to conceptualize innovative ideas, generate literature research, and conduct clinical trials to develop new evidence-based practice. The reason why evidence-based practice and research are important is because health…
Prevost, S.S. (2014). Evidence-based practice. In C.C. Burns (Eds.), Professional issues in nursing: challenges and opportunities (3rd ed., pp.18-29). Baltimore, MD. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins…
Evidence based practice generally defined as an ongoing inquiry about the human behavior, culture, family background, and socio-economic context. EBP helps the social workers with scientific approach to solve the problems and to create their own science which can be examined in own lab. With the help of EBP social work mental health practitioner can provide the services to their clients according their preferences, ethics, situational, cultural as well as a profession (Thyer & Myers, 2014, p. 7). Evidence based practice gives social workers different way of thinking about the different and diverse range of social practice which makes social work conceptually and theoretically improved (Gary & McDonald, 2015, p. 17). Mental health social work practitioner need to employ EBP because it enables with science based knowledge which can be tested its validity, to find out the clients socio-cultural context as well as specific problems in mental health.…
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).…
Nurses are expected to establish and make use of the best research evidence to enhance the clinical effectiveness of patient care and improve patients’ health outcomes. Barriers exists to knowledge of research utilization in their practice settings. In their study, Dalheim, Harthug, Nilsen and Nortvedt (2012), reported that inadequate time and resources to find research, unsupportive physicians, inaccessibility to information, and lack of authority to implement the finding, were the key barriers for nurses to use evidence based practice EBP (Dalheim et al, 2012). The barriers and assumption that evidence based research (EBR) is cumbersome make nurses to opt use of the gained knowledge from their experience in their practice instead of the advocated…
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a system of incorporating research findings into nursing practice so as to improve the therapeutic outcomes. (Polit, F. D & Beck, T. C, 2010). “The evidence based practice places particular emphasis on the use of evidence, in particular research findings, in clinical decision making”. (Parahoo, K, 2006). During past clinical exposures, the issues regarding post natal depression were found as a less explored one because of the complex involvement of both mental health nursing and maternal and child health nursing. “Postpartum psychosis is a manifestation of a life time vulnerability to affective disorders with child birth as the precipitating factor” (Spinelli, M. G, 2009).The focused clinical question discussed here, which is an important element in an evidence based practice is as follows; How effective is the education of nurses about postpartum depression in…
I think that evidence based practice is a very important aspect of nursing that should drive treatment, policy and procedure. Even though evidence based practice is informative and provides the best or leading theories to better our patients there doesn’t seem to be a standard to when evidence based practice is rolled out throughout different hospital systems. Some hospitals are using the latest and greatest methods for treating patients and some hospitals are years behind. Why is it that there isn’t a set standard on how long a hospital has to transfer to the new method and why don’t hospitals push to be using the best known care for their patients to improve outcomes. We as nurses should want to provide the best care to our patients as possible and it seems that the standard of care varies widely between different hospitals and hospital systems without an easy way for patients to be able to discern which ones are using evidence to drive their treatment.…
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…
Melnyk,B. M. & Fineout-Overholt, E. (2005). Evidence-base practice in nursing and healthcare: a guide to best practice. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.…
Nurses are responsible in providing holistic, quality care to their clients. In order to effectively provide such care Boswell and Cannon (2009, p. 2 & 7) states that nurses must base their provision of care on the most current, up-to-date health information available and sound nursing knowledge. This is where evidence-based practice (EBP) comes in. Polit and Beck (2010, p. 4) defined EBP as "the use of the best clinical evidence in making patient care desicions". This usually comes from research conducted by nurses and other healthcare professionals. Thus it is pertinent that research reports are critically analyzed.…