Nursing And Evidence-Based Practice

Introduction:
Due to the structure of health care in the United States, nurses are often responsible not only for patients’ education about their ailments, but also for designing and implementing plans and procedures to encourage general health education and wellness (Bastable, 2011). The advanced nurse should work to improve both personal nursing skills and the nursing skills of colleagues (Rolfe 2014). As such, nurses must be strong collaborators and life-long learners who are able to explain their justifications, processes, and skills to patients and one another. Although the world is developing an affinity for accumulation and implementation of evidence-based practice and although nurses pride themselves on their ability to learn and teach

Such a theory allows for nurses to be patient centred rather than task centred; it allows them to consider patients’ emotions and motivations as well as their own. Humanism as applied to the health care setting’s principal emphasis is on the healthcare professional’s ability to grow emotionally from treating patients as well as the healing nature of the ‘therapeutic relationship’ (Block & Billings, 1998). Humanism considers each learner a unique individual who seeks to grow from his or her experiences, allowing nurses to obtain a high degree of satisfaction from their work, which could reduce burnout and positively impact patient outcomes by reducing nurses’ stress (Duquette et al, 1994; Arab et al, 2012; Block & Billings,

However, according to Rolfe (2015), the movement of nurses towards task oriented nursing may be hindering the nurse’s ability to care: “The professions of nursing and nurse education are currently experiencing a crisis of confidence, particularly in the UK, where the Francis Report and other recent reviews have highlighted a number of cases of nurses who no longer appear willing or able to 'care’” (Rolfe, 2015). While it is true that humanism takes an inward approach to education, when applied to nursing, this criticism fails to supply a compelling disadvantage. At the heart of nursing is the desire to give to others. The desire to give is inextricably intertwined with the satisfaction of doing so. Philosophers have philosophised about benevolence, whether or not humans do-good for the sake of doing good or to fulfil their own needs, for centuries (Kant, 1785). Regardless, nurses should feel a sense of professional satisfaction and accomplishment. Maslow does not deny that the inward and outward motivations are intertwined and that sometimes this leads to selfish decisions (Maslow,