INTEGRATION OF EBP INTO PROFESSIONAL NURSING PRACTICE

Integration of Evidence-based Practice into Professional Nursing Practice



Integration of Evidence-based Practice into Professional Nursing Practice

Evidence-based Practice

During the 1980's, the term “evidence-based” medicine surfaced to describe the approach that used scientific evidence to determine the best practice. Evidence-based practice is a process that entails reviewing and evaluating the most reliable and updated research in patient care. The goal of evidence-based practice is to provide the highest quality care while being most cost efficient. It is a process based on the accumulation, interpretation, and integration of derived evidence. This is best available to improve the quality of patient care (Reverby, 1987).

Evidence-Based Education (EBE) is defined as the process by which nurses make clinical decisions using the best available evidence supported the research, clinical experience and patient preferences in the context of available resources. EBE can also be defined as the conscious, explicit and judicious use of information derived from research-based theory for making decisions about care delivery to individuals or groups taking into account their individual needs and preferences. Conscious and explicit use from the world of thought of the nurses, the benefits of the positivist model of synthesis of the literature of EBM, as part of a critical, reflexive and phenomenological such that visible health perspectives invisible by the hegemonic thought(Judd, 2004).

Evidence-Based Nursing

Nursing practice in recent decades is struggling to form a body of knowledge capital that could be an independent work of medical practice, which will be achieved with the articulation of general theories and evidence-based practice.

Currently the efforts of nurses are focused on the building a body of specific knowledge that allows continuous development of nursing as a scientific discipline and a recognized for it is essential to ensure an evidence-based practice supported by the advance of research, both in the clinic and community, as in the management and education. This work is a reflection on how we need the nursing professionals engages in the development of the discipline through improvement of research and careful integration and theoretical debate working methodologies, such as evidence-based nursing. In addition, shows the findings, limitations, criticisms and recommendations for implementation of evidence-based nursing in the area of care adult, as a strategy for improving and strengthening practice professional

(D'Antonio, 2010).

The focus of nursing professional's efforts towards the consolidation of a base of concrete knowledge is that facilitates the continuous development of nursing as a knowledge of concrete continuous that facilitate the development of nursing as a scientific discipline and a recognized one. To reach this goal it is fundamental to ensure evidence-based practice provided by research findings in both clinic and community settings, as well as in advocacy and education. These needs to be prudent incorporation of work methodologies based on theoretical debate and evidence of best practice in nursing. (Judd, 2004).

The evidence-based nursing (EBN) leads to decisions based evidence emanating from research, clinical experience and systematic user preference as a unique way. Intentions that generate changes that must be traversed by the debate and ...