NR 439 Week 8 Graded Discussion Topic: The
Evidence-Nursing Practice Connection
Week 8 Discussion: The Evidence-Nursing Practice Connection
Under evidence-based nursing practice, nurses would utilize data in making accurate
and informed clinical decisions, and also to monitor improvements and facilitate workflow.
This helps in improving patient care and outcomes. For instance, the use of a Real Time
Locator System (RTLS) helps in streamlining nursing and patient workflow by improving
communication to minimize errors and inefficiencies that are critical to quality patient care
and outcomes.
Thinking about nursing practice, I think that the delivery of consistent high-quality
nursing services in the healthcare system is faced with huge challenges nowadays. The
adoption and use of evidence-based practice (EBP) provides a reliable problem-solving
approach which is based on the best available and valid evidence, hence promoting quality
patient care, individual professional development, and reduced healthcare costs (Tacia et al.,
2015). One of the barriers that prohibit nurses from engaging in EBP is lack of time and
knowledge. Most nurses and clinicians often cite lack of time as one of the factors that hinder
their adoption and proper implementation of EBP to achieve quality patient care. Also, lack
of knowledge of uncertainty about the process involved in EBP implementation such as
critiquing literature related to the nursing problem being addressed, and appraising it is also a
huge barrier (Khammarnia et al., 2015).
One strategy that I could use to facilitate the use of evidence in improving the nursing
care for the patients is engaging appropriate stakeholders. By engaging appropriate
stakeholders when implementing EBP in nursing, nurses are able to build trust between
themselves and the patients. Also, working with appropriate stakeholders enables the nurses
to learn from their experience and provide positive inputs to the implementation of evidence-
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Evidence-Nursing Practice Connection
Week 8 Discussion: The Evidence-Nursing Practice Connection
Under evidence-based nursing practice, nurses would utilize data in making accurate
and informed clinical decisions, and also to monitor improvements and facilitate workflow.
This helps in improving patient care and outcomes. For instance, the use of a Real Time
Locator System (RTLS) helps in streamlining nursing and patient workflow by improving
communication to minimize errors and inefficiencies that are critical to quality patient care
and outcomes.
Thinking about nursing practice, I think that the delivery of consistent high-quality
nursing services in the healthcare system is faced with huge challenges nowadays. The
adoption and use of evidence-based practice (EBP) provides a reliable problem-solving
approach which is based on the best available and valid evidence, hence promoting quality
patient care, individual professional development, and reduced healthcare costs (Tacia et al.,
2015). One of the barriers that prohibit nurses from engaging in EBP is lack of time and
knowledge. Most nurses and clinicians often cite lack of time as one of the factors that hinder
their adoption and proper implementation of EBP to achieve quality patient care. Also, lack
of knowledge of uncertainty about the process involved in EBP implementation such as
critiquing literature related to the nursing problem being addressed, and appraising it is also a
huge barrier (Khammarnia et al., 2015).
One strategy that I could use to facilitate the use of evidence in improving the nursing
care for the patients is engaging appropriate stakeholders. By engaging appropriate
stakeholders when implementing EBP in nursing, nurses are able to build trust between
themselves and the patients. Also, working with appropriate stakeholders enables the nurses
to learn from their experience and provide positive inputs to the implementation of evidence-
https://www.coursehero.com/file/62540935/NR-439-Week-8-Discussion-The-Evidence-Nursing-Practice-Connectiondocx/
