Nursing Evidence Based Practice

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
Nurses must be confident and comfortable in their knowledge of basic principles so they can provide appropriate care to the patients and they must implement suitable interventions to deal with patients’ responses to this common treatment effectively (Chlan, Tracy, & Grossbach, 2011). All health care professionals should have access to up-to-date evidence in order to sustain best practices (Chlan, et al., 2011). As an alternative to practice that is based solely on the experience and knowledge of practitioners, EBP has been introduced in the field of nursing (Chlan, et al.,
There for it is difficult for the nurses to perceive outcome of the patient’s illness in the absence of EBP which will put more burdens of public and private health sectors in terms of cost and time to deal with patient’s condition. So EBP will helpful not only clinically but socially, economically and psychologically too. However, there are still certain argument regarding introduction of EBP in nursing and improve care of patient as there is lack of more research in this area. Therefore, to make EBP more effective and useful certain areas are need to be explored well such as selection of framework model for EBP, identification of clinical question, efficacy of available evidence, evaluation of current practice (Makic, et al., 2013) More research in this area will allow nurses to practice more judiciously and continue to improve care of the patient by EBP.

To recapitulate, this essay has demonstrated that EBP is research base practice and patient should receive care based on optimal scientific knowledge. However patient’s preferences and resources should be considered. It is responsibility of nurse to provide high quality of care to patient. It is important to have evidence in practice to save time, money and unexpected complications in patients. Although