Question

Explain evidenced-based approaches to optimize health and how these approaches can minimize health disparity among African American males.

Answer 1

#. Evidence Based Practice

a problem solving approach to clinical decision-making that incorporates a search for the best and most current evidence, clinical expertise, and patient preference and values within a context of caring to optimize patient outcomes

#. Components of EBP:

● Best available research evidence

○ nurses find and choose the highest quality information

● Clinical expertise

○ being able to tell others what you know, thinking about what you know, talking about what you know, asking others to validate what you know

○ "practical know-how that someone else validates"

● Available resources

○ the reality of limited health-care dollars, human resource challenges such as adequate nurse-patient ratios, and the availability of technology

○ how to weigh the benefit, harms, and costs of providing the best care

● Patient Preference

#. The EBP with racial and ethnic minorities is often seen as a possible cause of health and health care disparities. Three potential issues of using EBP to reduce health disparities have been identified: (1) a lack of data for EBP with ethnic/racial minority populations; (2) limited research on the generalizability of the evidence based on a European-American middle-class; and (3) sociocultural considerations in the context of EBP. Using EBP to reduce disparities in health care and health outcomes requires that nurse professionals should know how to use relevant evidence in a particular situation as well as to generate knowledge and theory which is relevant to racial/ethnic minorities. In addition, EBP implementation should be contextualized within the sociocultural environments in which patients are treated rather than solely focusing on the health problems.

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