Nursing: The Importance Of Evidence Based Practice In Nursing
Prompt 1.
“The amount of medical knowledge that a nurse practitioner must know today doubles every three years.” (Densen, 2011) Nursing practice is changing. With access to a search engine, patients are taking their healthcare into their own hands and keeping us responsible for staying up to date on evidence based practice. As nurses, we must be at the forefront of research to provide the best patient care.
After I have earned my degree, I plan on improving evidence based practice so that nurses can incorporate cutting-edge patient care principles into our daily routine. Understanding evidence based practice is difficult but necessary and, in the end, saves lives.
I have understood how difficult and time consuming it is to survey a large …show more content…
I am currently taking a summer class to become a certified Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). In the class, the instructor, a paramedic captain of a local unit, explained that the past local protocol required them to bag valve patients at a rate greater than ten breaths per minute, ensuring that patients who needed oxygen were getting it. What they did not realize, he explained, was that patients often aspirated and acquired infections in the Emergency Department after they transferred care. To a silent classroom, our instructor said, “we killed a lot of patients that way. That’s why you count to ‘6-Mississippi’ before you give the patient another breath.” Simply, evidence based practice saves …show more content…
Uninformed but well-intentioned policymakers may not be able to solve the healthcare problem given how complicated it can be. This can make our healthcare system more complex and ineffective, leaving many people without the care they deserve. Additionally, now patients often have a vested interest in their own health and are searching about what remedies to give themselves. It would be best if plainspoken, evidence-based articles guided their search instead of opinion websites and medical forums, where anonymity and household remedies can cause severe consequences.
So, in the future, I plan to develop a way that expedites the systematic review process. I hope to publish reviews in articles that are transparent and understandable by a lay audience but also credibly examines the existing research. I hope that I can allow nurses who work long hours reflect on their patient care and incorporate the best evidence into their care.
References
Densen, P. (2011). Challenges and opportunities facing medical education. Transactions of the American clinical and climatological association, 122, 48.
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses: a step-by-step guide. (2013). Center for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology. Retrieved 7 July 2017, from
“The amount of medical knowledge that a nurse practitioner must know today doubles every three years.” (Densen, 2011) Nursing practice is changing. With access to a search engine, patients are taking their healthcare into their own hands and keeping us responsible for staying up to date on evidence based practice. As nurses, we must be at the forefront of research to provide the best patient care.
After I have earned my degree, I plan on improving evidence based practice so that nurses can incorporate cutting-edge patient care principles into our daily routine. Understanding evidence based practice is difficult but necessary and, in the end, saves lives.
I have understood how difficult and time consuming it is to survey a large …show more content…
I am currently taking a summer class to become a certified Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). In the class, the instructor, a paramedic captain of a local unit, explained that the past local protocol required them to bag valve patients at a rate greater than ten breaths per minute, ensuring that patients who needed oxygen were getting it. What they did not realize, he explained, was that patients often aspirated and acquired infections in the Emergency Department after they transferred care. To a silent classroom, our instructor said, “we killed a lot of patients that way. That’s why you count to ‘6-Mississippi’ before you give the patient another breath.” Simply, evidence based practice saves …show more content…
Uninformed but well-intentioned policymakers may not be able to solve the healthcare problem given how complicated it can be. This can make our healthcare system more complex and ineffective, leaving many people without the care they deserve. Additionally, now patients often have a vested interest in their own health and are searching about what remedies to give themselves. It would be best if plainspoken, evidence-based articles guided their search instead of opinion websites and medical forums, where anonymity and household remedies can cause severe consequences.
So, in the future, I plan to develop a way that expedites the systematic review process. I hope to publish reviews in articles that are transparent and understandable by a lay audience but also credibly examines the existing research. I hope that I can allow nurses who work long hours reflect on their patient care and incorporate the best evidence into their care.
References
Densen, P. (2011). Challenges and opportunities facing medical education. Transactions of the American clinical and climatological association, 122, 48.
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses: a step-by-step guide. (2013). Center for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology. Retrieved 7 July 2017, from