Question

Discussion

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

Barriers for engaging in EBP:-

1.Lack of time

2.Lack of Knowledge about EBP

3.Lack of resources

4.Lack of support from the organization

5.Lack of interest

Strategy to facilitate the use of evidence to help improving nursing care for patients:-

1.Workshop for nurses to understand the importance of EBP.In the workshop, explain how to search the various available databases such as COCHRANE, JOANNA BRIGGS, etc.,

2.Reward System for nurses for utilizing pieces of evidence and provide nursing care.

3. Encouraging nurses to carry out research to find the effectiveness of available pieces of evidence.

Through the above ways, we can facilitate better utilization of the evidence to improve nursing care for patients.

Describe how your thinking has changed about nursing research and evidence-based practice:-

By the end of the course, I understood the importance of Nursing research how it helps in adding new knowledge to the body of nursing. Evidence-based practice helps to improve the patient outcomes as we use the best available evidence based on our judgment considering patients' best interests. Through evidence-based practice, we can utilize the findings of research studies.

Describe one new learning during this course that you believe was the most helpful:-

Through this course, I learned how to carry out systematic reviews, how to search the databases and preparation of PICO's. It was interesting to know something new which I was not aware of previously and which helps me with the nursing practice