The goal of this literature review is to show the importance of incorporating evidence based practice (EBP) into the clinical and education setting of nursing. EBP education needs to be added to yearly nursing competencies in all settings of healthcare delivery. While EBP and protocols should never replace clinical critical thinking on an individual, patient to patient level, the community deserves the best care, which is current evidence-based. Nurses are accountable for their choices in practice, EBP empowers nurses to question rationale of protocols and physician orders. There has been an attempt to implement EBP into the clinical practice of the healthcare system nationwide. Statistics are not available for EBP implementation as a whole …show more content…
Data was collected voluntarily via Monkey Survey from the nursing schools whose dean had replied via email and agreed to school participation. ARCC-E (Advancing Research and Clinical Practice through close Collaboration and Education) was used to measure the perception of the effectiveness of EBP courses. Amongst the highest ranking statement on the questionnaire was the availability of data bases, belief in EBP courses being very useful for graduate nursing students and faculty having high expectations of what students can achieve in EBP courses. Amongst the lowest rating was faculty members were EBP mentors for healthcare professionals and that they would like to be mentors. Time constrictions in relation to the amount of academics, theories and skill sets required to be taught in nursing programs. Students’ background knowledge research and understanding of EBP was also noted to hinder …show more content…
(2014) researched Systematic Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice in a Clinical Nursing Setting. It is known that EBP is not sufficiently implemented in daily clinical practice and there is a significant lapse in time between research and implantation in practice. The issues to implementing the Best Practice Mode of Working and EBP discharge protocol into this setting was the limited knowledge of EBP. Patients and caregivers interviewed, expressed desire to be aware of discharge twenty-four hours in advance including follow up and relapse prevention. Patients reported not feeling informed or prepared to go home and successfully continue to heal without relapse or secondary issues. The nurses surveyed from the lung unit also stated that the discharge process was unstructured. Researchers did not find any supporting EBP guidelines to follow for discharging lung patients home, only that discharge instruction should be structured and comprehensive. Researchers worked with the nurses to develop a discharge protocol specific for lung patients using best current research available, nurse expertise, patient perspective and patient feedback. This intervention was only partially met, while the feedback was positive from the discharged patients it was clear that the nurses had difficulty applying EBP steps, suggesting a possible need for a simplified version. Further research is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of implementing a simplified