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Evidence-Based Practice

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Evidence-Based Practice

Today, many healthcare facilities are looking for ways through which they can develop an

evidence-based practice in their nursing practices. However, this does not happen because they

lack to drive these issues forward. The facility that I work in has been able to adopt evidence-

based practice because of the culture of work that has been created by the nurse managers

[CITATION Ron08 \l 1033]. Understanding the application of these practices involved doing some

research.

The first stage was interviewing nine nurse managers. The sample was stratified by

selecting these nurses from different nursing units that is, high or low performing based on how

they implement EBP interventions. The study used content analysis to classify the themes that

indicate the complex nature of infrastructure that the nurse managers described [CITATION

JMi09 \l 1033]. The nurses also highlighted the contextual influences that they believed

supported or hindered the promotion of these evidence-based practices on clinical units.

To determine how evidence-based practice would work in the firm, various survey tools

were used. In this case, health department leaders were involved as well as other academic

researchers who carried cross-sectional investigations to assess the capacity of these practices.

These surveys focused on local-level practitioners because they are the ones who understand

how better the hospital works. The assessments were presented in the form of a questionnaire to

allow for a credible data collection process. The focus of this questionnaire was on the

knowledge, practice, and attitudes that nurses in the hospital have towards EBP. While

developing the questionnaire, psychometric methods were used. With robust validity and internal

reliability, the questionnaire was important in measuring how the organization implemented EBP.
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The nurse manager in the healthcare facility stated that workplace culture and structure,

as well as the resources an organization has, can either facilitate growth of nurses or inhibit it.

When these act as facilitators, it can empower nurses to implement EBP and in the process drive

change. A workplace culture must be able to communicate the goals of EBP. Moreover, an

evidence-based practice can work when nurse managers have direct contact with their CEOs.

The nurse manager stated that EBP works in the hospital because of the structure that it has that

includes nurse-specific committees. Through such committees, nurses have the opportunity to

effect changes that can improve their specific units [CITATION Ang15 \l 1033]. The high-

performing units that implement EBP tend to articulate the internal resources more and use them

in functions such as monitoring the quality of work in the departments.

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References

Hughes, R. G. (2008). Patient safety and quality: An evidence-based handbook for nurses.

Rockville: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and

Human Services.

Kueny, A., Shever, L. L., Mackin, M. L., & Titler, M. G. (2015). Facilitating the implementation

of evidence-based practice through contextual support and nursing leadership. Journal of

Healthcare Leadership, Volume 7, 29-39.

McGinnis, J. M., Goolsby, W. A., & Olsen, L. (2009). Leadership commitments to improve value

in health care: Finding common ground: workshop summary. Washington D. C.: National

Academies Press.