Discuss how evidence-based practice is applied in your practice setting and describe the desired patient outcome achieved through this approach.…
Medicine has changed over the years as we discover new and safer ways to approach different situations. These changes mainly occur because of evidence-based practice. In this discussion board I will describe how organizational infrastructure and culture assistance the implementation of nursing evidence-based practices. Subsequently, I will explain the process my organization uses for implementing evidence-based practice.…
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.…
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.…
The PICOT Model formulates the clinical questions. The PICOT Model has five steps, P: patient/population, I: intervention, C: current practice, O: outcome, T: time. The Iowa Model of Evidence-Based Practice to Promote Quality Care emphasis the importance of considering the entire healthcare system from the provider to the patient and it gives large systems an effective, team-centered approach to implement evidence-based practice in the clinical setting and is used for sweeping, system-wide changes in practice. The Iowa model has seven steps, the seven steps are identify a problem or new knowledge, prioritize the issues and form a team, team reviews, critiques and synthesizes the evidence…
Evidence-based practice needs one to get all the available evidence on a study topic. Internal evidence is applied in diagnostic reasoning such as in data banks. Concerning the issue of patients with ventilation-caused pneumonia, the nurse opts to visit institutions to gain evidence. On the other hand, external evidence is found in scientific studies and randomized control trials. This type of evidence is found from outside sources other than records from hospital facilities. Internal evidence enables standardization of the practice. However,…
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.…
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…
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,…
Self, W. H., Speroff, T., McNaughton, C. D., Wright, P. W., Miller, G, Johnson, J. G., & Talbot, T. R. (2012). Blood cultures collection through peripheral intravenous catheters increases the risk of specimen contamination among adult emergency department patients. Infection Control & hospital Epidemiology, 33(5), 524-526. doi: 10.1086/665319…
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…
This week the discussion focuses on why research and evidenced-based practice are important to the nursing profession.…
Evidence based practice is the best research integrated with clinical expertise, and patient’s values. This tells us the importance of combination of clinical judgment and the best evidence, which is centered on patient care. It is a practice which is based on research evidence;…
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…
