Category: Evidence-Based Practice

  • Evidence-Based Practice in Healthcare Organizations

    Keeping track of different organizations approaches to implementing evidence-based practice (EBP) is essential to summarize the role of EBP in service provision. Cleveland Clinic is a healthcare body that received a GHA accreditation with excellence as a medical travel destination almost five years ago, and its website was reviewed as part of the present assignment…

  • Hospital Readmission Reduction: Evidence-Based Practice

    Introduction Nowadays the sphere of healthcare is facing one of the most debated issues  how to develop a way for the patients transition after being discharged from the hospital efficient and cost-effective (Aguirre, 2012, p. 5). The proposed plan is targeted at finding ways of reduction of instances of readmissions to the hospitals as…

  • Evidence-Based Practice: Spiritual Care in Nursing

    There is growing evidence indicating the importance of evidence-based practice within the healthcare system. In this case health providers are required to make treatment decisions based on recent research findings while supplementing it with their clinical experience. Spiritual care seeks to ensure that a patients spiritual needs are adequately addressed to ensure that they do…

  • Benefits of Evidence-Based Practice

    Evidenced Based Practice (EBP), as used in healthcare, refers to the approach employed by practitioners in health centers to determine the most current, better-quality research that can be used to inform their service delivery. Nurses make use of EBP guidelines when evaluating appropriate care choice for patients. When this happens, health practitioners tend to operate…

  • Evidence-Based Practice Types and Examples

    Introduction Evidence-based practice (EBP) is an approach to healthcare that involves making decisions about patient care based on the best available evidence. In order to engage in EBP, healthcare professionals need access to relevant and reliable sources of information. A critical source of information is databases, which can be used to find and retrieve studies,…

  • End-Tidal Capnography and Evidence-Based Practice

    The end-tidal capnography is used to monitor the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) (Kerslake & Kelly, 2016). No use of capnography can result in adverse situations or severe damage, even death. To ensure that patients life is not at risk, medical personnel need to use capnography more often. The equipment should always be available, the…

  • Evidence-Based Practice and Nursing

    Reflection is a valuable aspect in the formation of self-awareness and understanding of the importance of the experience gained. This process is of particular importance in the nursing profession. The acquisition of medical knowledge and evidence-based practice contribute to the empowerment of students and the provision of opportunities to improve skills and professional characteristics. During…

  • USPSTF: Evidence-Based Practice Guideline

    Medicine, unlike many other disciplines, demands evidence-based support for all its interventions. Handling humans and life matters leads to fundamental requirements. Everything, from drug formulations, prescriptions, surgical procedures, and nursing practices, follow some due process involving the collection and trial of various pieces of evidence until something reliable, or beyond doubt, is achieved. Accordingly, interventions…

  • Evidenced-Based Practice in Nursing Profession

    Table of Contents Introduction Motivation to Implement EBP Barriers to Implementing EBP Conclusion References Introduction The major role of the nursing profession is to provide high-quality health services. The implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) is one of the most important strategies to achieve this professional role. EBP refers to the contentious, judicial, and explicit use…

  • Evidence-Based Change: From Research Into Practice

    The current standard in the healthcare sector is to use evidence-based practice to make critical changes and improvements to various processes which help deliver the best quality of treatment to patients. Evidence-based implies information that is supported by valid, informative, and long-term research which would be eligible to be implemented in clinical practice. In this…