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Evidence for Pressure Injury Prevention Nursing is no longer just about providing care at the bedside. The nurse is challenged to provide the best patient care possible. This elevated level of care can be achieved by implementing the use of evidence-based practice (EBP). EBP can be defined as the use of recent research, combined with nursing experience, and patient standards (LoBiondo-Wood & Haber, 2014). In this paper, I will discuss a change in policy my hospital recently implemented, why the…

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…

Evidence-Based Questions 1.Who can I seek out to assist me in enhancing my evidence-based practice (EBP) knowledge and skills and serve as my EBP mentor? Mentorship in evidence-based practice should be bidirectional. The process requires a nurse to seek mentorship from various sources, given that there is nobody who can have entire knowledge about a given subject in nursing. Consequently, I believe that I need to seek assistance from the nurses who have experience in the facility I am working in…

. SMEBP allows for acceptable evidence to be collected through its five step process. The first step is the preparation phase wherein the nurse researcher searches for and selects research for practice implementation. In the preparation phase, the nurse researcher identifies the need for practice change, identifies and creates the PICOT question as well as the search elements that would facilitate the collection of the best available evidence. The second step is the validation phase whereby…

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…

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. In my own experience, I have found that attitude of providers greatly affected their adoption of EBM. When providers feel they are losing control of the care of their patients or they feel…

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…

The hierarchy of evidence utilized to evaluate the strength of evidence for each article was the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine – Levels of Evidence table obtained from the Center for Evidenced Based Medicine (2009). The search engines and databases searched in the literature review were chosen to optimize the literature search for high quality evidence. CINAHL (Current Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) is a bibliographic search database, which contains references to…

Section D: Solution Description The proposed solution in the evidence-based practice (EBP) project is the plan to overcome an identified problem. It should be reasonable and accomplishable within the time frame and the budget constraints. The evaluation of the outcomes should be quantifiable by the empirical evidence (Roberts & Yeager, 2004). The evaluation will enable one to determine the limitations in the implementation, its correction and to support the desired effects to get the best…