NR 439 Week 8 Discussion The Evidence-Nursing Practice Connection (graded)

Sample Answer

Question 1.

• Think about nursing practice and describe one barrier that you feel prohibits nurses from engaging in EBP, share one strategy you could use to facilitate the use of evidence to help improve nursing care for patients.

I think that one of the barriers may be support of management, available resources and manpower. Smaller facilities there may be resistance from the staff, unwilling to adapt to change. Not seeing the benefit or need to change their practice.

I would engage my peers and brainstorm what intervention that we could do as a team that would improve patient care and outcome which would improve our nursing practice. It could go back to nurse hourly rounding. Each nurse interacting with the patients that are assigned to them for that 12 hour shift, the patient care board is marked off on an hourly basis, to assist with any needs, toileting, pain management comfort care etc.

Each charge nurse would keep the data via the assignment sheets which has the patients and their nurses. At the end of a 6 week period, the data from a short discharge survey which is developed by the team members on the patient’s perception of their care could be reviewed and the results presented to management.

This is something we could do as nurses that wouldn’t be costly it would increase patient satisfaction, decrease call light usage and improve nursing practice. EBP is the use of the best scientific evidence, integrated with clinical experience and incorporating patient values and preferences in the practice of professional nursing care. Houser (2018).

Question 2.

• Reflect back over your time in the course and describe how your thinking has changed about nursing research and evidence based practice; describe one new learning during this course that you believe was the most helpful.

This course showed and encouraged me that nurses are an important part of the care team. We are the ones that execute the interventions, we’re that know what interventions that are the most effective. We can make a large impact on outcomes. Previously I called it brainstorming, I know now it was EBP we were practicing on a more casual level.

This course has showed me the proper steps to set up and execute successful EBP research. Starting with an idea or question and the necessary data it takes to validate a proposed intervention. Will the intervention have positive patient care outcomes? Improving nursing practice. I feel that nursing is the driving force of patient and the outcomes and through EBP we have the power to improve and restore patient care outcomes.

Reference.

• Houser, J. (2018). Nursing research Reading, using, and creating evidence (4th edition). Jones & Bartlett