The Canon of Medicine

When nurses use evidence-based practice when caring for a patient, it allows the patient to receive the best quality care that they need. Every procedure that a nurse does should be based off evidence-based practice. At the facility that I am currently working at, it is easy to find resources about evidence based practice. However, one thing that obstructs the facility ability to implement evidence-based practice is that the facility has two educators that work with our department but they are both per diem and are not there often. The education department at the facility that I work tends to forget the emergency room because we do have the two educators. There are multiple ways that a nurse can look up and utilize evidence-based practice in our everyday tasks. One way that the facility that I work at does is through a system called Health Stream. It is how the facility keeps the staff up to date on all the new policies and procedures and all the new information about diseases. It is a place where a nurse can take online classes to further his or her knowledge. There is also a website that the hospital pays for a subscription to that is called UpToDate. It is a website that a nurse is able log on to and looks up the most current information on procedures, medication, and diseases. I personally use this website at least once a shift. When I was first starting out as a nurse, I was constantly on the site looking up anything that I did not know. It is a very helpful tool to…

Evidence Based Practice Evidence based practice is of great importance in nursing because keeping ones practice up to date with credible well thought out information helps improve healthcare outcomes. This short essay will discuss the importance of evidence based practice, the promotion of better patient outcomes, as well as the importance of research and rigor when finding credible studies. The importance of Evidence based practice cannot be underestimated enough due to the fact that evidence…

Looking at and understanding how nursing is influenced by the differences between the focus of evidenced-based practice and the focus of research is a basic fundamental that applies not only to nursing but many different aspect of other fields like trading stocks in stock market, teaching to being an auto-mechanic. (Schmidt and Brown, 2012) define evidenced-based practice (EBP) as “practice based on the best available evidence, patient preferences, and clinical judgment” (p.4). Research is…

Best Practices in Presenting Evidence According to Wikipedia, “Evidence, broadly construed, is anything presented in support of an assertion”. In every area, unless we are stating our own opinion, evidence is the fundamental building block for making an argument. Any audience, requires an appropriate amount of evidence to believe in the veracity of a presenter’s argument. In the following writing, I will be going through my recent experience in presenting the topic, “Australia SHOULD NOT cull…

A century ago, the humankind had no idea about tumor necrosis factor (TNF); however, physician William B Cooley was able to demonstrate the principle of anti-tumoral response in vivo as early as in 1891 (1,2). He escalated the idea of anti-tumoral response based on his observation of remission of lesions in patients injected with a mixture of dead Streptococcus pyogenes and Serratia marcescens bacteria (1, 2). Due to the lack of understanding of mechanism behind this observation, it was not…

1.2 There are four approaches to outcome based practice - results based accountability, outcomes management, outcomes into practice and the logic model. Results based accountability, also known as outcome based accountability is an approach which uses data to problem solve and make decisions, such as a feedback system. It is often used to look at communities to improve the lives of children, youth, families, adults and communities as a whole. It is also used within services to improve…

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are one of the fundamental building blocks for creating any empirically supported therapies (ESTs). This implies that ESTs should be standard and superior treatment as they are founded and based on scientific and quantifiable evidence, which, of course, is the goal of any science. However, the stance is widely controversial as it is derived from assumptions that have minimal support and consensus data such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental…

at the world. (Bizshifts-trends.com, 2014).The mindset rests on two disciplines: a willingness to put aside conventional wisdom and belief, the dangerous half-truths that many embrace and act on the facts and a continual commitment to gather the facts and data needed to make more informed, smart decisions and to keep pace with current evidence and use the new facts to upgrade practices. (Bizshifts-trends.com, 2014) If doctors practiced medicine the way countless business organizations practice…

Evidence-Based Practices in Child Welfare Evidence-based practices (EBPs) in the realm of child welfare seek to prevent a problem before it occurs or lessen its possible effects (Goldman et al., 2003). All EBPs should be culturally competent; they need to consider the cultural perspectives of ethnic minority populations, who are at a high risk of developing psychosocial problems compared to other populations (Jackson, 2009). There are several EBPs currently in use in child abuse and neglect…

occupation. “Some of the differences in the application of EBP for occupational therapy arise from the differing practice domains and theoretical models used” (Bennett, S., & Bennett, J.). Each occupation has its own technique of collecting evidence and deciding which method of practice is most beneficial for them. “Occupational therapy, as a profession, has relied primarily on the clinical expertise of the practitioner while the impact of research has been negligible” (Gardner, et al., 2014).…