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).…
Urine Test : this method of testing has been the commonest method of sugar testing, this can be done by comparing the color charts to detects the amount of glucose in the urine by dipping clinistix in urine specimen however it is not accurate sometimes although it simple and fast to…
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.…
(2015). Impact of Changes in the NHSN Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Surveillance criteria on the Frequency and Epidemiology of CAUTI in Intensive Care Units (ICUs). Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 36(3), 346-349. doi:10.1017/ice.2014.67. Retrieved from EBSCO…
Hagman, J., Oman, K., Kleiner, C., Johnson, E., & Nordhagen, J. (2013). Lessons Learned From the Implementation of a Bedside Handoff Model. The Journal of Nursing Administration, 43(6), 315-317.…
In this section, students describe what worries them about current practice. They answer the question, what…
9.1) During my evidenced based practice assignment, I became informed of a particular participant’s current housing situation. This housing situation may severely impact his quality of life. It may impact his quality of life because he may be living in a unsatisfactory living environment. The participant used a program in the past and this program had many gaps in service. After I learned this, I collaborated with SOAR’s social worker and did research on organizations that could help this participant. Upon collaboration, she informed me that she had contacted every agency she could think of to help this participant and the ones I suggested she already talked to. 9.2) Recently, I helped SOAR acquire more funding sources for the 5k. 9.3) I have…
Evidence based practice helps us to ensure that we are providing the best possible care to our patients. By basing our care on practices that have outcomes based on evidence just makes since. They have been tested and proven to be effective on patients. We don’t have to do trial and error to find out what works the best for our patients, the work has been done for us. This gives our patients the best care possible. Many changes have been made over the past 10 years based on evidence based practices. There are many resources available to nurses, nurse managers, administrators and others that provide research that has been completed. These resources include different kinds of studies that have been performed. They include cohort studies, case…
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 management is a method of making important decisions for your organization based on hard facts. If evidence suggests your decision can be successful you proceed, otherwise you either choose a different route or conduct research to find the evidence you want. This approach helps you not only make decisions, but also evaluate their success, as it is evidence that can prove whether you have reached a goal or not.…
In preparation for her meeting with the Unit Practice Council, Michele needs to be able to explain what evidence-based practice is and why adopting evidence-based practice will be beneficial to the unit. “Evidence-based practice is a problem-solving approach to clinical decision making within a health care organization. It integrates the best available scientific evidence with the best available experiential (patient and practitioner) evidence. EBP considers internal and external influences on practice and encourages critical thinking in the judicious application of such evidence to the care of individual patients, a patient population, or a system” (Newhouse, Dearholt, Poe, Pugh,&White,…
This week the discussion focuses on why research and evidenced-based practice are important to the nursing profession.…
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…
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…
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…