Barriers in Implementing Evidence Based Care among Nurses

Abstract

In this paper, the analysis strives to explore diverse conceptions related to evidence based care among nurses. The core objective of this paper is to illustrate the notion of evidence based care in the field of nursing. In addition, the paper focuses on diverse barriers of implementing evidence based care among nurses. The term evidence based care reflects the effectiveness of nursing and healthcare delivery services to the patients. There are several internal and external barriers that influence the healthcare services provided by the nursing workforce, and the scope of nursing profession. The barriers not only influence nursing workforce; but, the influence is also eminent on other healthcare related fields. This paper will focus on the major barriers of evidence based care among nurses, and suggest different recommendations through which the barriers can be eliminated.

Table of Contents

Abstractii

Introduction4

Barriers in Implementing Evidence Based Care among Nurses5

Nursing Shortage6

Educational Barriers for Nursing Workforce7

Barriers Pertaining to Medication Errors during Nursing Practice8

Barriers of Healthcare Access10

Barriers Pertaining to the Implementation of Cost-effective HealthCare Delivery11

Recommendations for Implementing Evidence Based Care among Nurses12

Conclusion13

References15

Barriers in Implementing Evidence Based Care among Nurses

Introduction

Evidence-based nursing care is a process of integrating evidence and patient factors; nonetheless, evidence based care in the field of nursing aims to provide excellent healthcare services and cost-effective patient care. Different sources assert the point of all of the attention being paid to research utilization, best practices and perceived barriers is to optimize individual patient care. Several studies aimed at evidence based care stress the importance of an evidence-based approach, including specific criteria in outcome evaluation, overall process monitoring, and a view of best practices based on research related to what is happening in external yet similar facilities. In other words, what works best in a large urban teaching hospital may not work best in an isolated rural community hospital. There are several conceptions related to the effective healthcare delivery system in the field of nursing.

Moreover, there are distinct issues faced by the nursing workforce that are striving for the provision of evidence based care in the healthcare delivery process. The effective and efficient healthcare delivery is termed as evidence based care; however, there are certain barriers that hinder the excellence in the process. The paper aims to enlighten different dimensions that discuss a variety of barriers faced by nursing professionals in care delivery process; moreover, the core objective of the paper is to highlight the barriers that hinder evidence based care among nurses. Barriers to implementing research in clinical nursing practice have long been a concern, both to the nursing profession and to managers involved in the delivery of optimal, evidence-based and cost-effective patient care.

Barriers in Implementing Evidence Based Care among Nurses

Nevertheless, other barriers pertaining to nursing workforce, which included lack of traditional training around evidence based care and end of life training, personal opinions toward hospice care, and managing patients' and families' fears and other feelings related to end of life. It appears that some barriers to evidence based care sometimes ...