Rational basis review

Evidence based practice is so important in the current healthcare world. When evidence based practice is at the center of any organization, there is great improvement in practice and patient outcome. “Only 55% of the time, patients get the evidence-based practice needed for their plan of treatment (IOM 2001). The institute for healthcare improvement, launched 100,000 Lives Campaign enrolled more than 3,000 hospitals, representing an estimated 75 percent of U.S. hospitals beds, which implemented…

Topic and Thesis Much attention is being paid to “evidenced-based practice” (EBP) in the health services (Duncan & Reese, 2012; Glasner-Edwards & Rawson, 2010; Wells, Kristman-Valente, Peavy, & Jackson, 2013), whether it be medical or psychosocial (Pedersen, 2007). The field of substance use treatment is no exception (Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs [ACMD], 2013; Buck, 2011; Gold & Brady, 2003). If an individual or a funder is going to pay for a treatment, so the logic goes, then the…

The lack of evidence-based policy making allows the three branches of government and the States to make policy decisions grounded in ideology rather than persuasive evidence. There are times when the government correctly chooses ideological policies without evidence and there are times when the government does not choose correctly with evidence. The full extent of how the lack of evidence-based policy making may not be known. However, there are times when the lack of evidence-based policy has as…

1. I tried to find the article using the school library online database. I first used a general database called Academic OneFile. I tried typing in the journal title, author and publication date. The article still did not come up after trying this a few times. I then decided to try using a psychology database since this is a psychology course. The first database I used was Science Direct. I tried typing in the journal title, author and publication date. No results were found when I used this…

Psychologists are constantly striving to determine the best treatment for their patients. To do this, psychologists commonly work together to form the most effective treatment plans for patients. It is also common practice for researchers and psychologists to work towards a joint effort to form such plans as well. The article, Evidence-Based Practice in Psychology written by the APA Presidential Task Force on Evidence-Based Practice (2006) talks about the method of Evidence-Based practice and…

1. EBM has been around for years. Why is EBM so hard to implemet? According to Mohammad and Salahshoor (2018) “Despite the emergence and development of evidence-based practice (EBP) in recent years, its adoption continues to be limited.” (p. 25). By use of used Rogers's diffusion of innovation theory, they were able to identify several factors that affect the adoption of Evidence based medicine, including individual innovation, attitude, knowledge, and the perception of evidence based medicine.…

Evidence-Based Practice Proposal - Section E: Change Model Implementation of evidence-based practice to create change in the clinical arena is the challenging task for the clinicians and research expertise. In the context of the implementation of EBP, various ‘change models’ were innovated for systematic guidance to assist the clinicians with their expectation for the change align with their organization (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2015, p.274). The author was in a position to chose the…

Psychological practice has been transformed and critiqued for over a century. What started out as talk therapy and discussions of subconscious desires is gradually being empirically tested. Psychological practices are becoming more evidence based, leading to improved psychological assessments and treatments. This paper will be a summary of the article, “Evidence Based Practice,” as well as a critique of the strengths and weaknesses. Evidence Based Practice in Psychology (EBPP) is defined as the…

power is limited by the other two branches of government and the President nominates justices to the court. However the in the UK the Supreme Court is used to interpret the law and resolve dispute, it is much more limited in its powers of judicial review than the constitutional or Supreme Courts of some other countries because of parliamentary sovereignty. A recent U.S Supreme Court ruling lossip v. Gross was carried out in 2015, the case was about executions carried out by a three drug protocol…

actually forced me to stop and thoroughly read every source to find what information I agreed/disagreed with. Pre-writing helped to pinpoint what my beliefs/ideas were in both the personal culture paper as well as the quote-directed paper. Peer review and tutoring really helped to improve the conciseness of my papers, drawing all my thoughts and ideas into clear, cohesive paragraphs that flowed smoothly from one to the next. My peers and my tutor also picked out errors that I tended to…