Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) In The Nursing Profession

Evidence-Based Practice Application

The practice of nursing has changed over the years from a task-oriented job to a science-based profession (Brown, 2013). With this change, research studies have become a pivotal part of the nursing profession, providing the information that is used to expand, improve, and generate new nursing knowledge (Brown, 2013). Evidence-based practices (EBP) in nursing are based on the best available research data generated from these studies (Weng et al., 2013). An example of the research used in documenting an EBP was found in an article by Hammonds et al. (2015). In this article, which will be explored further throughout this paper, the authors discussed the potential of utilizing a mobile phone medication adherence

Both groups participated in a pre-study survey and a manual count of their antidepressant medications (Hammonds et al., 2015). One of the participant groups was taught how to use a medication compliance mobile app and how to enter the required responses to the automated prompts that were necessary to track medication compliance (Hammonds et al., 2015). At the end of the study, the treatment group completed a post -study survey and another count of their antidepressant pills. The control group did not receive the mobile phone app but did participate in the post study medication compliance survey and pill count (Hammonds et al.,

As noted in the article by Israni, Dean, Kasel, Wildebush, and Wang (2016), of the post kidney transplant patients studied, most stated that “forgetting” was the primary reason immunosuppressant medication doses were missed. A study to determine the impact of the mobile phone app for this population could utilize many of the same features used in the study by Hammonds et al. (2015), including pre and post-study surveys, a mobile phone app set to prompt those in the treatment group to take their immunosuppressant medications and a pill count and lab work to confirm accuracy of the