The usage of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is an essential element in the healthcare delivery. It is first necessary to explain that evidence-based practice is a decision-making process concerning the healthcare delivery to patients on the basis of modern, recognized and proved research evidence, priorities of consumers, professional judgments and public expectations (Yip, Mordiffi, Kim, Zhang & Majid, 2013). In any case, EBP has great chances for promoting healthcare industry to a higher level of producing the intended healthcare delivery.
Nursing as an occupation has always acknowledged the significance of the investigation, studying, and experimentation as an important framework for its development. The research on the knowledge base for medical practice provides attaining consumers with outcomes and making performance of nurses more convincing. It should also be noted that EBP is based on two types of research. First, it is a quantitative research operating with objective data that in turn can be measured and evaluated. On the other hand, the qualitative research includes more subjective data which can be a base for each investigator or examiner of interpretation and disclosure contrasting meaning from the outcomes (Potter, Perry, Stockert, & Hall, 2013). Thus, both types of research are essential. The quantitative research is evaluable and repeatable and it is also aimed to detect what might be the most efficient direction to take after revealing the best credible one. Consumers of the healthcare delivery are all unique and cannot always demonstrate normal reactions with any actions taken, even if EBP was fully performed. In addition, the quantitative research evidence is generally generalizable extrapolated for the larger public. Moreover, the qualitative research is a significant standpoint as well, because it can give an in-depth comprehension of patients and, besides, this type of research promotes disclosure and describing barriers that can occur while performing EBP. However, the qualitative research might not be an ultimate move in terms of promoting alterations within the practice and despite that, it enlarges the viewpoints and attitude of the researcher and it gives a renewed path to proceeding investigation and study (Potter, Perry, Stockert, & Hall, 2013). On balance, both quantitative and qualitative researches are important.
The evidence achieved through nursing practice and research is needed to maintain the anticipated results of the nursing care delivery. A medical professional should define what the research exercises are and consider the level of its potential in order to make recommendations to contribute EBP. Despite many important progressions, medical workers still have a lot to do to attain evidence-based practice extensively. More detailed studies indicated that nurses had affirmative outlooks toward EBP and wished to obtain more skills and knowledge (Stevens, 2013). Anyway, they still face substantial barriers and complications in engaging it in practice. In order to successfully adopt and encourage EBP, nurses and other healthcare workers should comprehend that it must be assimilated by organization, team, and individual healthcare providers. At a team level, complications such as staff information and skill deficits, psychosocial, organizational, and resource barriers can be seen (Pearson, Field & Jordan, 2007). Thus, healthcare facilities should exercise courses or programs with highly-developed training techniques and learning materials which grant nurses an opportunity to further their education in the area of research. That does not necessarily means that medical workers should get an additional degree, but it should provide a complete understanding of the system to the medical staff.
It seems clear that practical medical workers, educators and researchers need to work in collaboration to provide nursing organizations with a knowledge base for medical practice. Moreover, by regularly evaluating the ability to supply evidence-based practice care and closing the gap between the knowledge and care delivery, professionals can enhance patient care in the healthcare system.
References
Pearson, A., Field, J., & Jordan, Z. (2007). Evidence-based clinical practice in nursing and health care. Oxford: Blackwell Pub.
Potter, P., Perry, A., Stockert, P., & Hall, A. (2013). Fundamentals of Nursing. London: Elsevier Health Sciences.
Stevens, K. (2013). The Impact of Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and the Next Big Ideas. Retrieved 2 July 2016, from http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/TableofContents/Vol-18-2013/No2-May-2013/Impact-of-Evidence-Based-Practice.html
Yip, W., K., Mordiffi, S., Z., Shen, L., Kim, E., N., Zhang, X., & Majid, S. (2013). Nurses' perception towards evidence-based practice: A descriptive study. Singapore Nursing Journal, 40(1), 34-41.
