The evidence based practice (EBP)

Nowadays, the evidence-based practice (EBP) project is a requirement of the educational modules of the School of Nursing, Doctor of Nursing Practice.

The EBP initiative will focus on theoretically and clinically significant nursing issues. This necessitates prior experience in data development exercises, such as the interpretation of research into practice, the utilization of new information, the evaluation of training, activities that improve the wide acceptability of human health care services and results, and dynamic collaborative research. As a result, the following two GCU Library scholarly databases can assist in locating the best research publications supporting EBP proposals:

Nursing and Allied Health Literature Cumulative Index (CINAHL)

CINAHL Database deals with indexing of the uppermost nursing and associated health literature available with both nursing journals and journals from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association. Literature conquests a wide range of themes including nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and other seventeen allied health subjects.

In the CINAHL comprehensive database, the CINAHL Titles permit investigators to search for the medical or good term that is frequently used in literature instead of non-technical language. This can also assist when researching medications. This feature is positioned above the search boxes. In addition, CINAHL Database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, audiovisuals, and book chapters. It comprises of legal cases, full-text journals, critical paths, clinical trials and innovations, and research instruments.

While PubMed, utilize search lines that offer a greater variety of progressive features.

These extra features are dominant over the Google scholar.

The two databases have advantage over Google Scholar and other general searches due their high quality of searches. They are as well easier as result of filtration of database in terms of keywords and time of publication as well as type of resources.

Question 2

In the year, 2003 Institute of Medicine has indicated an objective that ninety-percent of training be evidence based before the year 2020. The objective was to ensure that clinical decisions were supported by timely, accuracy, updated in terms of information, and will refer to the best available evidence. The Evidence Based Medicine can most suitable proficient to deliver care to individual patient conveys the best assessment and results into enhancements in the country’s health. It can guarantee innovation, quality, safety, and value in health care. Several researches were concluded that the patient’s evidence-based care could reduce patient difficulties and decrease healthcare charges by as much as thirty percent. Strain in creating the time at working place to go through and read journals, article and reports is another barrier faced by nursing.

For executing EBP additional training is essential, the more assurance is provided by more training. However, the longer working nurses in healthcare had the less interested they were in learning more about evidence-based practice. The typical nurses of several hospitals were trained at a period when EBP was not well incorporated into educational plans. So owing to these actions many nurses are working in accordance on how they were trained in traditional healthcare system in which they work. When fresh graduates who have studied to take an evidence-based approach to care are meeting these nurses in real-world settings, they encounter this prevalence the way they do it in their culture.

Several training institutes’ faculties have a routine of accentuating teaching rigorous research methods and examination of dominant research instead of how to put research results to use in clinical practice settings. For evidence-based practice, nursing training, new progress, and cultural changes in healthcare settings is necessary. When these measures are put in place, the two barriers discussed above will be addressed appropriately.

References

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Blessing, J. D., & Forister, J. G. (Eds.). (2012). Introduction to research and medical literature for health professionals. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.

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Hopp, L., & Rittenmeyer, L. (2012). Introduction to evidence-based practice: A practical guide for nursing. FA Davis.

Michie, S., Johnston, M., Abraham, C., Lawton, R., Parker, D., & Walker, A. (2005). Making psychological theory useful for implementing evidence based practice: a consensus approach. BMJ Quality & Safety, 14(1), 26-33.

Walker-Dilks, C., Wilczynski, N. L., Haynes, R. B., & Hedges Team. (2008). Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature search strategies for identifying methodologically sound causation and prognosis studies. Applied Nursing Research, 21(2), 98-103.

Glendale Adventist Medical Center, & Seventh-Day Adventist Hospital Association. (2000). Cumulative index to nursing and allied health literature (Vol. 45). Glendale Adventist Medical Center..

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