Teaching Evidence-Based Practice: The Bachelor of Science in Nursing Essentials at Work at the Bedside

Assessment of Attitudes, Skills and Source of Knowledge on Utilization of EBP Among Registered Nurses in Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China

“…It is described as " a life-long problem-solving approach to the delivery of health care that integrates the best evidence from well-designed studies with a patient's preferences, values and a clinician's expertise, which includes internal evidence gathered from patient information" [1]. This approach help the nurses to critically assess and use all information resources in order to correctly identify clinical problem, apply the most high-quality intervention, and re-evaluate the outcome of their performance for future improvement [2]. In addition, It assist changes in nursing professional roles with updated current knowledge to identify main clinical issues, reduce medication errors and increase nurses' self-confidence in performing different EBP activities [3].…”

Your Problem is Our Problem

“…EBP is specified with "care that integrates the best research with clinical expertise and patient values for optimum care". EBP is the cornerstone for; patient safety, quality care, and costeffectiveness in health care (3). According to DiCenso (4), the necessary skills required for EBP consist of the capacity to: 'Define a patient problem precisely and ascertain what information is required to resolve the problem, to conduct an efficient search of the literature, to select the best of the relevant studies, to apply rules of evidence to determine their validity, to extract the clinical message, to determine how the patient's values affect the balance between advantages and disadvantages of the available management options, to involve the patient appropriately in the decision, and to implement and evaluate the management plan'.…”

Using pedagogical approaches to influence evidence‐based practice integration – processes and recommendations: findings from a grounded theory study

“…). Using scenarios from clinical practice and engaging students with the EBP process to make clinical decisions has been used successfully in a few undergraduate nursing programs (Odell & Barta , Centrella‐Nigro & Flynn , Finotto et al . ).…”