Question

Evidence-based practice involves the integration of research evidence, clinical expertise, patient needs and practice context. How would you incorporate clinical reasoning with regards to your project?

Answer 1

Ans) Applying the best evidence to our clinical decision making involves examining, critiquing, and synthesizing the available research evidence.

- Our clinical expertise, combined with the best available scientific evidence, allows us to provide patients with the options they need.

- Evidence-based practice involves basing clinical decisions and practice on the best available evidence.

- Instead of defining best practice narrowly by the strength of the current empirical evidence used to guide clinical decisions, it should be defined broadly by what is the best information to use to make decisions for a given patient in a particular setting. Credible and accountable clinical decisions rely on a number of forms of knowledge and evidence. This evidence includes findings from across the range of research methods, including experimental, interpretive, and action research. In nursing, it also includes evidence that has arisen from the depth of practice knowledge of expert clinical nurses.

- Professionals, particularly advanced and expert clinicians such as critical care nurses, use clinical reasoning to guide their practice in the uncertainty of clinical practice contexts. This reasoning helps the nurse make judgments about the relevance of particular research and clinical evidence for a specific patient and setting.