Aveyard and Sharp (2013) looked at evidence based nursing and suggested that it is concerned with the reasons behind why you carry out certain procedures and the reasoning should be based on the evidence that is the best surrounding the certain aspect of nursing you are carrying out, this is to support yourself as a nurse and anyone under your care.
Credible evidence is evidence that can be backed up by previous research, this information can be found on websites, journals etc. This type of evidence is usually backed up by peer reviewing.
Nurses are required to use credible and relevant evidence as the information they would gain from the evidence is vital to understanding what is going on with a patient. …show more content…
By using credible and relevant evidence any information that they can share with the patient will be correct and …show more content…
Thornton (2011) states that person centred care encourages the family to treat the patient as they normally would and the family often act as a source of information so this would be a way of comforting them. It may also help the patient and family to have a better understanding and overall it allows the person to have a better quality of