Facilitators and barriers to evidence-based practice: perceptions of nurse educators, clinical coaches and nurse specialists from a descriptive study

Abstract

The reported findings create evidence-based information for organisational strategic planning. Organisations need to develop educational programs to promote EBP and employ strategies to overcome barriers to implementation.

Barriers to using electronic evidence based literature in nursing practice: a systematised review

“…Evidence based practice relies on systematised approaches to find pertinent research not on ‘arbitrary Internet searches’ . Excluding time limitation, lack of knowledge on searching skills was the most noted obstacle which 66% ( n = 14) of the reviewed papers identified . For instance, in their study, Majid et al .…”

“…Organisational setting as a barrier in using electronic literature was only reported in 9% ( n = 2) of reviewed papers . Jones et al .…”

“…The second most cited barrier in this review was identified as lack of searching skills on bibliographic databases . Nurses are the major clinical staff in health care setting, but evidence suggests that less have addressed their seeking behaviour compared with nursing students .…”

“…Different studies revealed different barriers proposing the problem as a multi‐faceted issue. The most cited barrier that almost 86% of the reviewed studies have addressed included lack of enough time to perform a search …”

“…Findings of this study showed that not having enough time to conduct a search was a major barrier noted by almost 81% (n = 17) of the reviewed studies. 4,20,27,[35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48] Jones et al interviewed clinical nurses and in his paper argued that nurses do not have the required time to perform a search for patients' educational needs especially if the patients are waiting and the search takes too long, it will be abandoned. 35 Others mainly focused on the limited time nurses have at work to search and read evidence based content.…”