Summary
Essential III asserts on the importance for professional nurses to acquire a scholarship aimed at impacting knowledge and skills of engaging in Evidence Based Practice. Apparently, professional nursing requires that nurses have the skills and knowledge requisite to translate available evidence into practice. Therefore, taking a baccalaureate nurse program sets one on the path that evidence based practice education is imparted. The Baccalaureate program is designed in a manner that it ensures the graduate have the ability to point out the interrelationships existing between nursing theory, practice as well as research. Furthermore, the graduates have the skills necessary to conduct evidence based research, with the understanding that human subjects used during the studies deserve ultimate protection from exposure of their personal information. The graduates are also imparted with the skills requisite in evaluating evidence, therefore able to identify the credibility of sources of information. The graduates will also be able to collaborate with other members of the healthcare team, in bid to retrieving, appraising and synthesizing evidence to improve the outcome of the patients.
Reflection
Essential III is crucial for future nurses since it stipulates some of the key procedures that need to be followed to acquire adequate information regarding a clinical problem. Nurses in their day to day activities which are aimed at providing ultimate care for the patients encounter various anomalies. Some of the problems that present in their line of work require the nurses to apply a high level of professionalism in making the clinical judgments. Therefore, conducting evidence based research is integral to ensure that the judgment which will be made is backed with credible evidence. Nurses therefore are required to explore past studies regarding the problem, understand the inferences that were made and combine with other information from past studies, experience and inter- professional team advice to make the ultimate judgment. Without prior education that essential III offers, nurses might not be in a position to make sound judgments.
