Benefits Of EBP

Evidenced-based practice (EBP) is utilized by nursing professionals all over the world to implement change in their current nursing practice. An advantage of implementing EBP results in a higher level of care that ultimately leads to improved patient outcomes. EBP combines the latest research evidence that is readily accessible to healthcare providers (Prior, Wilkinson & Neville, 2010). There are several benefits of EBP in the healthcare setting; EBP increases nurse’s critical thinking and decision making, confidence level, ability to adapt to change as they have to constantly evaluate the various researches that would support and be beneficial in their practice (Hanberg & Brown, 2006).

The Royal College of Nursing in the United Kingdom developed the “Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARIHS) which is a multifaceted framework. According to the PARIHS, the formula for successful implementation of EBP incorporates three components: clinical expertise or expert opinion, outside scientific evidence, and patient perspectives to provide high-quality services that reflect the values, interests and needs of the individuals served (Rycroft-Malone, J., 2004).

A framework that was developed by nurses is the “Advancing Research and Clinical practice through close Collaboration” (ARCC). The aim of the ARCC is to improve integration of research and clinical practice in acute care settings like the cardiac telemetry unit at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital. ARCC assists in the dispersal of the best high quality evidence from studies to facilitate the advancement of an EBP method to clinical care.

The implementation of EBP to reduce the number of readmissions for Spanish-speaking HF patients will require the util...

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...ical research cannot be applied to individual patients. Nurses who work in a clinical setting are required to prioritize the ever growing demands for patient care and associated assignments on an everyday basis. Participating in an EBP is not a priority since it is imperative that the needs of patients and their families be met. Therefore, the best of intentions by nurses to take part in and or support research can be put aside by patient care and workload demands (Giles et al., 2010).

In order for clinical policy or guideline to be both evidence based and clinically relevant, it must balance the strengths and weaknesses of all applicable research evidence with the practical realities of the healthcare and clinical settings. This is can be a problematic step because of limitations in both the evidence that is available and in policy making (Donald & Haines, 1998).