Prevost, S.S. (2014). Evidence-based practice. In C.C. Burns (Eds.), Professional issues in nursing: challenges and opportunities (3rd ed., pp.18-29). Baltimore, MD. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins…
Within health care facilities, it is important for newfound research evidence to be transferred into clinical practice and policy development. Management and decision makers must communicate clearly to the health care team and make them aware of decisions that are made and how the decisions will affect them. Team members are encouraged to share their understanding with others to expedite knowledge transfer within the facility. Knowledge transfer facilitates shared intelligence, improved employee performance, higher levels of innovation within the organization, and economic growth (Rundall, et. al,…
Communication is a very important factor within an interdisciplinary team. In order to provide quality and safe care to patients, the nurses correspond and collaborate with the staff and other healthcare personnel. Nurses are constantly updating physicians and reporting to fellow nurses the patient progress and status. Communicating frequently, exchanging information and providing feedback creates a safe working environment that is not only critical to staff, but also to the patient. Overall, effective communication leads to goal achievement. Another way a nurse can take an active contributing position within an interdisciplinary team is providing quality patient care, utilizing the nursing process: assess, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate. The nursing process is an ongoing contributing factor within patient care; therefore, is essential to an interdisciplinary team. The nurses critically think to resolve problems using creative, logical, and analytical processes. Data from the nursing process guides the direction of patient care, promoting quality outcomes. Within an interdisciplinary team, the nurse is constantly performing evaluation of outcomes and revisions, updating team members of patients’ status and plan of care. Moreover, utilizing the nursing process when providing patient care is indispensable to an interdisciplinary team; Because of this, nurses are…
The health care organizations should provide nurses mandatory evidence-based practice (EBP) programs annually to develop and ensure competencies that enable staff nurses to use evidence in their practice. Moreover, nurse managers and leaders need to create a supportive environment for EBP, such as providing resources for searching for evidence. In order to have the administrative support, managers and leaders need to communicate with policymakers and set out related policies with evidence-based research to make the EBP as the daily basis of nursing care. Consequently, it should be…
Medicine has changed over the years as we discover new and safer ways to approach different situations. These changes mainly occur because of evidence-based practice. In this discussion board I will describe how organizational infrastructure and culture assistance the implementation of nursing evidence-based practices. Subsequently, I will explain the process my organization uses for implementing evidence-based practice.…
Evidence-based practice needs one to get all the available evidence on a study topic. Internal evidence is applied in diagnostic reasoning such as in data banks. Concerning the issue of patients with ventilation-caused pneumonia, the nurse opts to visit institutions to gain evidence. On the other hand, external evidence is found in scientific studies and randomized control trials. This type of evidence is found from outside sources other than records from hospital facilities. Internal evidence enables standardization of the practice. However,…
Evidence based practice refers to making decisions about patient care based on well supported evidence through clinical research. “Identification of evidence and best practices results in the development of clinical guidelines to provide the best care to patients” (CCN, 2013). According to Hood; evidence-based medicine, evidence-based nutrition and evidence-based nursing provide a mechanism for the delivery of best practices for healthcare (Hood, 2010). In my workplace, implementing evidence-based practice on pain management is necessary. I work with mostly elderly patients; most of them are unable to voice any discomfort or pain. It is crucial that we assess them as frequently as possible, evaluate their pain medications, making sure they are effective. I teach my CNAs on a regular basis about the non-verbal pain indicators and the importance of reporting in a timely manner, teaching is also provided about non-pharmacological intervention for pain relief.…
Evidence based practice helps us to ensure that we are providing the best possible care to our patients. By basing our care on practices that have outcomes based on evidence just makes since. They have been tested and proven to be effective on patients. We don’t have to do trial and error to find out what works the best for our patients, the work has been done for us. This gives our patients the best care possible. Many changes have been made over the past 10 years based on evidence based practices. There are many resources available to nurses, nurse managers, administrators and others that provide research that has been completed. These resources include different kinds of studies that have been performed. They include cohort studies, case…
In a facility that provides care to the health consumers such as this the entire team as to be communicating effectively on a daily basis. The different personalities of the team members can be used to the advantage of the facility by pairing like personalities to do the necessary training together and complete tasks because they would be more productively if they are not in conflict (Organizational Communication, n.d., ). Sending out the information that the entire team needs is important in that it keeps them apprised of any changes or added tasks they need to be aware of. Most importantly is the face to face communication with concentration on listening. If the ideas and concerns of the team that is operating the facility on a daily basis is heard it will result in a well-run, profitable facility with longevity both in the external and internal community (The Management Center,…
In preparation for her meeting with the Unit Practice Council, Michele needs to be able to explain what evidence-based practice is and why adopting evidence-based practice will be beneficial to the unit. “Evidence-based practice is a problem-solving approach to clinical decision making within a health care organization. It integrates the best available scientific evidence with the best available experiential (patient and practitioner) evidence. EBP considers internal and external influences on practice and encourages critical thinking in the judicious application of such evidence to the care of individual patients, a patient population, or a system” (Newhouse, Dearholt, Poe, Pugh,&White,…
In my ADN course we had to do a poster project with a presentation utilizing an evidence based practice theory. We chose…
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Good evening professor and classmates, It is true that communication is the foundation of all interpersonal relationships with a two-fold purpose of giving and receiving information. It is very important for the professional nurses to develop communication strategies that they can use to specifically promote collaboration with other healthcare disciplines and professionals. “Effective communication and collaboration among health professionals is imperative to providing patient centered care”(The American College of Nursing,2008,p.22). As we know communication and team collaboration is crucial in the healthcare setting, for example I work in the Oncology/Hematology unit to prevent any medication error two oncology certified nurses must do the specific doges calculations individually and verify with the pharmacist. In addition, both nurses must asses the patient and reviewed lab work, past medical history and any possible adverse reaction. Teamwork among healthcare professionals is associated with delivering high quality and safe patient care (Barnsteiner, Disch, Hall, Mayer, & Moore, 2007).…
Nursing practice is based on EBP, and nurses need the ability to identify, locate and interpret research evidence. Nurses are expected to have the ability to retrieve evidence-based resources, analyze the information and implement practical interventions when caring for the patient. “Information literacy skills are the fundamentals of Evidence-Based Practice” (Phelps. Hyde, Wolf, 2015). Nurses are encouraged to use evidence-based practice and validated information for patient education and care. It would be dangerous to use information out of date, false, and misleading for patient information and care.…
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