Evidence Base Practice In Nursing

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Evidence base practice has been applied in all health care setting, every day nursing practice. Nursing and all professional are encourage to incorporate and utilized the available resource and guideline to their practice for quality patient outcomes. Evidence base practice is vital in nursing practice and it evident in quality care. For the following reasons, the process of EBP has to be monitored through ongoing quality monitoring and improvement. Another evidence-based practice currently use at my agency is prevention of pressure ulcers is implemented when a Braden scale score is less than 18 (Best Practice, 2010). When patients are known to be high risk for pressure ulcers prevention program is implemented. This includes keeping the

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