Question

Improving patient care and outcomes is paramount to the practice of nursing. As we conclude our learning journey through our world of research and evidence-based practice, it is important to reflect upon your time spent in the course:

• Think about nursing practice and describe one barrier that you feel prohibits nurses from engaging in EBP; share one strategy you could use to facilitate the use of evidence to help improve nursing care for patients.
• Reflect back over your time in the course and describe how your thinking has changed about nursing research and evidence-based practice; describe one new learning during this course that you believe was the most helpful.

Answer 1

Main barrier that prohibits nurses from engaging in EBP is

• Over burden on nurses, increased number of patients assigned to a nurse.
• As the work burden increased on nurses it is difficult to practice based on evidences.
• It makes the nurses to spend less time with each patient.

Strategies to improve EBP:-

• Reduce the number of patients assigned to a nurse
• Provide knowledge regarding EBP
• Conduct seminars and conferences on the topic of importance of EBP and how to implement it.