Scientific evidence

literature is a necessary and fundamental skill required of all physicians throughout their careers. Competency in the domain of evidence-based medicine (EBM) is essential in that patients expect that their physicians will be up-to date with…

relatively difficult undertaking, implementing the Organizational readiness for evidence-based practice tool proves to be a formidable way to assess organization readiness. Within the following passages this writer plans to review in word form, her organizations readiness for evidence based practice implementation. The overall goal to this assessment is to discover issues that distress the approval or dismissal of evidence-based practice (EBP) changes and alterations in nurse manager and staff…

Evidence based practice directly impacts the care we provide our patients and improve current practices. According to Jones (2014), “Practicing health professionals are able to offer a distinct perspective from academic researchers, making their contributions to the development of healthcare services research very important”. As healthcare providers it is important that we are active in research and look for ways to improve the care that is provided to patients. Nurses can provide invaluable…

Fain (2013), states that “evidence-based practice relies on evidence from research and refers to clinicians making an effort to integrate research findings into clinical thinking and decision making (p. 5). Fain also goes to state that we, as nurses, can improve the roles of nursing by asking questions such as “What is the best evidence for this practice?” or “What are the highest achievable outcomes for the patient, family, and nurse?” (p. 5). Where I currently work, I triage individuals that…

when making educated clinical choices (Jun, Kovner, & Stimpfel, 2016). This essay will discuss guidelines, updating practices, nurses being educated on guidelines and forming a question surround guidelines Clinical guidelines must have the best evidence available, helping the health professional but not replacing clinical judgment, skills or knowledge of the professional (Pooler, 2014). With new and ongoing advancements within the health industry, learning and educating is a continuing…

Evidence-based practice is a very important part of taking care of patients. “Evidence based research involves collecting, evaluating, and implementing to improve patient care and outcomes (Why Evidence-Based Practive is Vital to Improving Patient Care, 2016).” To me this quote says the most important parts of evidence-based practice. I felt the Stevens (2013) article contained a good amount of detailed information pertaining to evidence-based practice. In one section of the Stevens article…

Although humankind has been developing and using scientific methodology for hundreds, if not thousands of years, until the late 19th century we had not begun to turn our focus inward and study other humans. To this point, sciences had been formulated to better understand our physical and environmental surroundings. To their credit, early thinkers achieved considerable advancements in understanding sciences like physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics, and many of the discoveries throughout…

experience, scientific background knowledge, preliminary observations and logic. We often come up with multiple hypotheses to explain an observation, we just eliminate the ones that are wrong. What's left over is not a theory or a law or an 'ultimate truth', it's just a possible explanation for something, one that can lead us to new hypothesis, which we may agree or disagree with the original one. A group of hypotheses comes together to form a conceptual framework. As sufficient data and…

little changes to the scientific knowledge, and the Catholic Church had adopted a system of beliefs that is based on the teachings of the Romans which it had successfully incorporated into their religious doctrine. During this period of time only few scientific inquiries and experimentations were conducted. However, the Renaissance shaped the western societies’ doctrinal passivity entirely. In the early modern period, there was a fundamental change to the understanding of scientific knowledge,…

unquestionable knowledge and scientific discoveries. In part two of his discourse, Descartes presents his method and its rules.…