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Your nurse manager requested that a small committee of nurses on your unit, of which you are chairperson, update all of the current policies related to caring for patients with hypertension. How would you describe the significance of evidence-based practice centers and translational research in developing evidenced-based health care to the rest of your committee. Your committee finds the following guideline: 2014 Evidence-Based Guideline for the Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults: Report from the Panel Members Appointed to the Eighth Joint National Committee (JNC 8), published online Dec. 18 at: 2014 Evidence-Based Guideline for the Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults (please do not pay for PDF version of the article, just read through the HTML version online). Your committee uses the Grove Model to evaluate the guideline for implementation in practice. Include your assessment of the guideline in your discussion. Based on your evaluation, would you recommend the implementation this guideline? Why or why not.

Answer 1

1. Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a significant point in the nursing professional practice excellence model. Nursing is the center of healthcare delivery and has a major role in the EBP centers and in achieving evidence-based practice in healthcare. Nursing has an important role in evidence-based practice, particularly in aligning practice with evidence at the point of care. Therefore, nurse scientists are in a position to take a leadership role in the field of translational research, which is translating knowledge or evidence into action. Healthcare focused on excellent patient care requires the integration of nursing research and EBP into professional practice and quality nursing care. Evidence-based healthcare identifies clinical questions and finds answers to these questions by generating knowledge and evidence to deliver healthcare appropriately and effectively in ways that are effective and feasible to particular populations and cultures. This evidence is then evaluated and transferred to health professionals and their service delivery environment, who utilizes it and evaluates its impact on health outcomes, systems, and practice. Thus evidence-based practice centers and translational research are significant in developing evidence-based healthcare.