Nurse leaders play a very big role in promoting evidence-based practice in the health care centers by designing and formulating a need for the information that can be linked to an intervention or existing practice, looking for the appropriate best evidence and assessing its validity, and formulating a change in practice and the best methods that can be used to evaluate its effectiveness (DiCenso et al., 2014).
Implementation of evidence-based practice change requires strategies such as training the nurses on the importance of adopting the change to motivate them, ensuring that adequate resources are in place to implement the change, and coming up with a mechanism for building intervention to implement the new practice (DiCenso et al., 2014). Consequently, all the stakeholders affected by the change process should be involved in all stages of change to avoid resistance.
There are some issues and trends that make a health care culture to change for instance terrorism (Fullan, 2014). Nowadays it is a must to go through a security check before getting into any healthcare center. Changes in technology are also compelling health care organizations to change their ways of doing things so that they may not be left behind and to meet the growing demands of the public.
Both nursing work group culture and organizational culture take the time to build and to be fully accepted by the employees (Cadden et al., 2013). Consequently, both cultures vary from one organizational setting to the other. Additionally, both organizational culture and nursing work culture influences the ability of any institution to implement change in any sector.
Conclusively, nurse leaders play a vital role in implementing evidence-based practice since they act as custodian to change. To implement evidence-based practice change, it requires strategies that motivate and are easily accepted by employees. For a health care culture to changes, there must be forces that drive the change such as technology.
References
Cadden, T., Marshall, D., & Cao, G. (2013). Opposites attract: organisational culture and supply chain performance. Supply Chain Management: an international journal, 18(1), 86-103.
DiCenso, A., Guyatt, G., & Ciliska, D. (2014). Evidence-based nursing: A guide to clinical practice. Elsevier Health Sciences.
Fullan, M. (2014). Leading in a culture of change personal action guide and workbook. John Wiley & Sons.
