Question

1. State your area of evidence-based practice (EBP) interest consistent with your specialty track.9nursing education)?

Answer 1

Ans) Evidence-based nursing (EBN) is an approach to making quality decisions and providing nursing care based upon personal clinical expertise in combination with the most current, relevant research available on the topic. This approach is using evidence-based practice (EBP) as a foundation.

- Areas of EBP:

1. Starting the Transition:
- Evidence-based practice is embedded in the CMBP methodology. When implementing the CMBP, nurse leaders and educators collaborate to encourage, inspire, and support nurse practitioners learning to use the model.

This evidence-based process includes four key steps:

• Finding opportunities for improvement
• Research
• Evaluation
• Implementation
• Process monitoring
Overall, participants expressed a positive experience with the process.

2. Team Collaboration:
- Building rapport among team members is the first priority in launching the process. Perseverance is critical during this stage, as melding personalities is always a challenge. It’s also vital to take steps to ensure early interest in the initiative, taking special interest on overcoming the objections of resistors.

3. Building Interest:
- By developing and publishing a clearly defined outline, initiative leaders can help build early interest. This includes precise and sufficient direction regarding the effort. It’s important to disseminate this information when it will prove most effective. As an aside, partnership between the participating care provider organization and the academic faculty fostered rapport. Finally, it’s extremely important that nurse leaders actively take part in the overall process, which encourages practitioners to participate.

4. Connecting with Practitioners:
- Practitioners found that the guidance provided by the nurse leader made participants feel connected with the process. This was in part due to ongoing two-way communication by the nurse leader. Additionally, practitioners were encouraged by the leader’s positive attitude. This result requires a proactive approach on the part of nurse leaders. However, heavy caseloads sometimes had a detrimental effect on this positive influence.

5. Learning to Teach:
- Participating nurse leaders felt that the project was an awesome and ongoing learning experience. They expanded their body of knowledge and learned new research skills. Due to their limited ability to implement evidence-based practices, the nurse leaders expressed that although the project was rewarding, it was equally challenging. One major positive outcome of the process was enhanced skill in vetting EBP sources.

- The intended effect of EBP is to standardize healthcare practices to science and best evidence and to reduce illogical variation in care, which is known to produce unpredictable health outcomes.The EBP process has been highly applied, going beyond any applied research efforts previously made in healthcare and nursing.