Evidence-based practice is the use of best evidence that gathered during research together with patient values and clinical initiatives to help in making decisions regarding health care. Evidence based practices (EBP) are practices that are meant to be used to in diabetes, asthma or in the event of heart failure. Health care organizations have used different practices to improve outcomes of their patients. Over the years, there has been intense emphasis only on analysis that will guarantee the safety of patients at the expense of implementing evidences on best practices.
The implementation of the evidence-based practices of safety has proven to be difficult due to the ever-changing cultures regarding health care. Of late, the nursing profession has come out with leadership guidelines that aim at improving care in research application. The following are the evidence -based practices-Knowledge creation and distillation (Bosworth, 2010).
This is conducting of research followed by grouping the findings into products that have the ability to have an action. The actions may include recommendations for specific practices, which will in turn, increase the chances of its implementation. The end user perspectives is considered when choosing distillation criteria e.g. the ability to be transferred and be implemented real-time, the evidence’s strength (Wiemken & Kelley, 2012).
Diffusion and dissemination
Involves breaking down useful information that forms a basis for action because of a partnership between the health care practitioners and professional leaders. Dissemination functions to bring together researcher and intermediaries who break down the information and the link to practitioners at large (Bosworth, 2010).
End user adoption, implementation, and institutionalization
This is the point at which the BEP findings are adopted by individuals and practitioners alike and includes limiting the errors during medication among others. The primary goal of the EBPs is to implement the research findings and use the most recent nursing practices to improve on patients’ outcome. Information sharing is another goal, which brings together health care officers and researchers together where they get to share incisive data on patients’ wellbeing. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) model is considered when transferring the results of a research in the clinical initiative for patient safety (Grol, 2013).
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References
Bosworth, H. B. (2010). Improving patient treatment adherence a clinician's guide. New York: Springer.kwell/BMJ Books.
Grol, R. (2013). Improving patient care: the implementation of change in health care (Second ed.). Chi Chester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell/BMJ Books.
Wiemken, T. L. & Kelley, R. R. (2012). Improving Patient Care. Medical Education, and Biomedical Research in the United States: The Role of Social Media. J Socialomics, 1, e 106.
