Question

What are some of the obstacles or barriers to implementing EBP in nursing? Provide a rationale for your answer. Since there are numerous topics on the issue, it is not appropriate to repeat one that has already been mentioned unless providing new information.

Answer 1

Evidence based practice in nursing is applied in order to provide quality care based on the evidence and research done on particular subject or procedure. There are certain barriers / obstacles when implementing EBP practically, One example of EBP is using 5 moments of hand rub to prevent hospital acquired infections. Following are the example of obstacles of implementing EBP:

• Time management : Nurses have a lot going when they are on duty which starts from monitoring patients vitals, administering medications, going for doctors round, doing the lab work and documentations, hence to take out time from all of these and implementing the practice would be time consuming.
• Staff patient ratio : As we all are aware that there is globally shortage of nurses hence the nurse patient ratio is always more which could also be an obstacles in implementing EBP.
• Communications : Communication between the nurses and the policy makers are one of the biggest obstacle as they are not applying the protocols clinically hence they have very little knowledge about the problems which the nurses might face while applying the new policy.
• Lack of training : Nurses will require proper training and knowledge with the rationale about what they are doing and what could go wrong.