EBP Reflection

Evidence based practice (EBP) is a well-known clinical practice that has transitioned healthcare practices into the thriving force that it is today. Healthcare has advanced in several ways that catapulted over the last decades that, causing tremendous positive outcomes for the patients and for the healthcare system. After completing the EBP Beliefs Scale and the EBP Implementation Scale I found that EBP is quite vital and significantly important to the entire healthcare practices and is a necessity that will continue to improve the healthcare practices. Once I completed the EBP Beliefs Scales I found that I personally lack implementing or researching new EBP, nor do I have a complete understanding of the foundation and importance of the EBP

The evidence brought to the department was based on how we triage patients in the emergency department, however I did not further research the information given to me, nor do I remember where the literature was based from. The change called for new guidelines on the manner of how patients were triaged were implemented to provide patients with the proper resources needed in a timely manner and improve patient’s outcomes. The evidence brought to the department brought about change, however I did not seek out additional information or evidence to determine the significance for the change. Although the evidence did change my practice, the problem is I did not research or investigate to determine the foundation or reasoning for these changes. I rely on educators, leadership personnel to find new studies and rely on them to present credible resources. This is not good practice on my end. In the past eight weeks I have not formed a PICOT question, critically appraise evidence from a research study, read or reflected on peer-reviewed EBP journal articles nor promoted the use of EBP with a colleague. In this process of completing the EBP Beliefs Scales there is a huge lack of knowledge and foundation that I