Our organization defines its vision as the need to work towards developing new measures and interventions that are responsive of the population we serve, the organizations’ mission is extrapolated from the vision and it seeks to make the organization a centre of medical innovation, new inventions and the point of reference for all health needs of the immediate community (Gale & Schaffer, 2009). The organization considers evidence-based practice as a key component of the processes and procedures and forms a part of the culture. The redesign of the organization in the last five years has been based on the need to have a facility that meets specific needs of the community and the population and this has been facilitated by research and continued innovation has also meant working more closely with the community around us.
As a strategy to actualize the use of EBP within the organization, the organization has integrated nurse educators within each department and unit and even so set out a special department that manages and monitors research. The nurse educators are tasked with working with the nurses to translate the evidence into practical and applicable elements. The organization recognizes that nurses may lack the skills to implement EBP or the organizational culture may also be a burden to the implementation of EBP (Gale & Schaffer, 2009).
The nurse educators are expected at all times to identify with the possible barriers and the issues that may hinder EBP implementation and that includes the revolutionizing of the workplace/organizational culture to reflect one that favors EBP as well as the training on nurses on skills necessary for the implementation of EBP. The nurse educators are the link between the researchers and the practice settings and theirs is to eliminate the possible barriers. This has enabled the organization to quickly move from the novice status of EBP use to the current state which I would regard as a more expertise-state within the last six months (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2011).
References
Gale, B. V. P., & Schaffer, M. A. (2009). Organizational readiness for evidence-based practice. Journal of Nursing Administration, 39(2), 91-97.
Melnyk, B. M., & Fineout-Overholt, E. (Eds.). (2011). Evidence-based practice in nursing & healthcare: A guide to best practice. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
