Question

when an nurse introduce EBP, is the nurse a change agent?

Answer 1

Ans) The job of the change agent is to assist people (including both health care professionals and consumers), organizations (hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, physician offices, home health agencies) and other stakeholders in understanding why change is needed and, more importantly, understand how it benefits them.

- One year after graduation, the participants reported that the Master’s program of EBP had given them applicable knowledge they found useful in their daily work. Together with the acquired organizational knowledge and analytic competencies, they saw themselves as “change agents”, prepared to improve clinical care within a learning organization.

- If dedicated professionals are to succeed in improving patients’ outcomes’, both organizational and individual factors must be addressed.

- This gives the graduates the necessary competencies to implement EBP in their own workplace if the factors important for creating a “readiness for change” are present. This knowledge may prove valuable for facilitating EBP in health care, and can be guidance to the developers of EBP curriculum.