Question

Identify a clinical problem that could be addressed with an evidence based practice project. Support your answer with citations and reference list.

Answer 1

AIMS OF EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE

To provide the high quality and most cost effective nursing care possible. to increase satisfaction among patient To focus on nursing practice away from habbits and tradition to evidence and resarch. It results in better patient outcomes. it contribute to the chocice of nursing It keeps the practice current and relevant It increase confidence in decision making.

PURPOSES AND OBJECTIVES

Evidence based practice seeks to replace as usual , with practice guided by rigorous outcomes oriented research , ideally randomized controlled trial ,. It also seeks to make a practice a less subjective enterprise , and to raise it to a higher level of accountability . It is associated with efforts to identitfy best practice in nursing and other disciplines.

FEATURES OF EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE ;-

problem based and within the scope of the practitioners experience.

It brings together the best avialble evidence and current practice by combining research withknowledge and theory . So it narrows the research practice gap.

STEPS OF EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE

Evidence based practice is throughtful itegration of the best avialable evidence, coupled with clinical expertise . As such it enable health practitioner of all varieties to address healthcare questions with an evaluative and qualitative approach . Evidence based practice allows the practitoner to assess current and past research , clinical guidelines and other information resources in order to identify relvant . Literature while differentiating between high quality and low quality findings .

The practice of Evidence based practice includes the five fundamental steps .;-

STEP 1;- formulating a well built question

STEP2 ;- collecting the most relevant and the best evidencec to answer the clinical question including searching for systematic reviews identifying articles.

STEP3;- Critically apprasing the evidence that the has been collected for the its validity , relevance and applicabillity

STEP4;- integrating the evidence with ones clinical expertise , assessment of patient's condition and available haelth care resources along with the patient preference and values to implement the evidence .

STEP5 ;- Evaluating the change resulting from application of evidence in practice . determines the areas for improvement .