The Importance Of An Evidence-Based Practice

Evidence Based Practice Nursing is the utilization by nurses of Evidence Based Research findings that, according to Houser (2012), steer the nurse toward integration of clinical expert opinion and experience with an unbiased exhaustive review of the best scientific evidence professional nursing care literature can provide while incorporating patient values and preferences. Evidence Based Practice Nursing entails adopting a systematic critical thinking decision making process guided by a deliberate and defined chosen Evidence Based Nursing model path that involves searching,

The impact of evidence based practice has been brought into nursing through education, practice, and science over the last decade. Evidence based practice provides quality care to patients that is effective, safe, and efficient. Evidence based practice promises moving care to a high level of producing the intended health outcome for the patients. “EBP is aimed at hardwiring current knowledge into common care decisions to improve care processes and patient outcomes” (Stevens, 2013). EBP empowers nurses and expands their skills by using the best available evidence to guide nursing care and patient outcomes.

Special education practitioners appear to have produced the majority of the research on the prevalence of evidence-based practice in education. Studies of the prevalence of evidence-based practice in general education do exist, but in at least one instance, the research was published in a special education journal (Kretlow and Helf, 2013). Kretlow and Helf (2013) published a study of kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade teachers that asked these teachers about the reading programs they were implementing. The results indicate that few of these teachers are using reading curricula that is demonstrated to be evidence-based. Studies among special educators have produced similar results. Research by Cook and Cook (2013) suggested that significant misunderstanding exists about what evidence-based practices are and this has led some special education teachers to ignore evidence-based practices. Similar results were obtained by Carter, Stephenson, and Strnadova (2011) regarding the prevalence of

The purpose of this paper is to answer questions which surround the topic of evidence based practice (EBP) in Social Work. This paper will discuss the definition of EBP, why EBP is used in Social Work, the positive and negative sides of EBP, and finally an example of EBP being used within an agency setting. The information gathered is coming from three separate scholarly journal articles, a podcast episode, and the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics (NASW Code).

Evidenced-based practice (EBP) should be a driving force behind establishing optimal clinical practices. These efforts hold the potential to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs (Ahrens, 2005). It is true that evaluation tools are very effective for any kind of evidence-based change project. It helps in finding out the project needs, implementation and outcomes. Ideally, evaluation begins when a group of patients’ assessment is initiated and continues across the life of a program to ensure adequate implementation (Jacobs et al., 2012).

Evidence based practice is important in health care because the roles of nurses and doctors is to keep the patients safe while treating them and helping them recover in the hospital. It is a

The effect of evidence-based practice (EBP) has resonance across nursing science, education and practice. EBP has called for quality improvement and healthcare transformation which emphasizes the need for reshaping care that is effective, safe, and efficient (Stevens, 2013). In healthcare settings, the heightening complexity of medical care and the need to increase quality, safety and cost control for better patient outcome have led to the use of clinical guidelines in practices (Cecamore, et. al., 2013). Brown and Ecoff, (2011), report that Evidence-based decision making becomes the process for achieving evidence-based practice. In decision making process, it involves asking focused answerable questions, obtaining evidence, and

1. Describe Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)? Evidence based practice is an interdisciplinary approach to clinical practice. It brings together theory, clinical decision making and judgement, and knowledge of research process Evidence based practice is broader than research utilization and recognizes other source of evidence.

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a process that involves the conscientious and explicit use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients (Sackett, Rosenberg, Gray, Hyaness, & Richardson, 1996) and in different professional settings, EBP denotes different meanings (Eddy, 2005). Evidence-based practice in psychology (EBPP) recognizes not only the research but also the clinician’s expertise and the patient’s preferences, values, and culture is important to the future of the profession and quality patient care (Levant & Hasan, 2008). Psychologists need a structure and techniques for finding solutions to many questions that may arise in practice. Hence, EBPP proposes a specific method, and develop specialized

The emergence of evidence-based practice was in the 90s mainly for medicine practice but it has rapidly spread into other disciplines and professions which are focused on people’s health. Sackett at al. (1996) have defined this term as: “Evidence-based practice is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients”. The reason for its prevalence and its success is clear as it is quite simply a self-evidently good idea to base the practice on an appropriate evidence (Trinder, 2006). To provide a complex and the most effective care that is available, the practitioner needs to make sure that the care will be based on clinical data/ knowledge, research evidence and patient values/ preferences or expectations. One aspect without the other is not sufficient and complex in the approach of client care and is not enough to provide the best care and ensure the best patient outcomes (Rowland and Goss, 2000).

It was very nice from you put yourself on another people situation. Most of the time people is not that thoughtful and do not think about the people who are not the luck. It is definitely an OT approach, think about others and imagine how hard can be living without insurance. I really think about the OT situation in the case of people who uninsured and this is a very good point that we should reflect about before give our opinion about the health care propose.

Patients using CPAP should be instructed to bring their machine on the operative day. OR booking must be notified and patients with severe sleep apnea should be scheduled as early as possible to accommodate prolonged recovery times. The OR schedule should reflect sleep apnea diagnosis to alert the perioperative team. On the day of surgery the patient’s chart should be flagged and the patients given a yellow arm band. Available CPAP machines would have to be cleared by the biomedical engineering department for hospital use. If CPAP is needed, respiratory therapy must be made aware so CPAP can be implemented as early as needed postoperatively. The anesthesia team can then formulate a plan of care tailored to the patient’s surgical needs with acknowledgement of OSA as a comorbidity. Decreased use of opioids with the use of NSAIDs, intravenous Tylenol, and other methods of pain management would be utilized by the nursing staff

While working on a surgical GI unit, I was informed by my nurse that my patient was discharged and that I was going to be assigned to a new patient. My patient had an anastomotic leak from his previous surgery and there was a possible chance of sepsis. He had two Jpratt drains, an ileostomy, an NG tube and lastly some wound dressings. One of the aspects that was different from this patient and other patients, is that he had a patient controlled analgesia pump (PCA). “A PCA is an interactive method of pain management that permits patients to manage their pain by self-administering doses of analgesics, usually opioids” (San Diego Patient Safety Task Force, 2008). My patient had the PCA pump because of his increased pain due to the complication

In the pre-induction room the patients were taught how to assess their own pain score using the numerical rating scale (NRS) (0–10; 0 = no pain, 10 = worst imaginable pain) and how to use the device for a patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) (CADD–Legacy® PCA ambulatory infusion pump,

My current position is a clinical lead nurse on a surgical/orthopedic floor, we receive a wide variety of patients with a large concentration of them being post-operative knee or hip replacements. Over the last year and a half our surgeons and anesthesiologists have implemented the use of continuous peripheral nerve blocks (CPNB), often referred to as pain pump balls, specifically we use the OnQ balls. “The On-Q infusion device is an elastomeric device with a flow regulator that controls the flow of a local anesthetic agent through a peripheral catheter” (Burnett, 2011). The pain pump balls are intended to decrease post-op pain and maximize patient’s ability to participate in physical therapy. The