EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE (EBP)
Following the 2001 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, “Crossing the Quality Chasm”, recognition of the need to incorporate evidence into nursing practice has grown significantly. Yancey (2019) suggests that nurses among all generations and disciplines need to inform their practice with the best evidence available. To support Yancey’s claim, Blazin, et al.
(2020) give concrete examples of EBP through their study’s (I-PASS) adaptability, and its potential to improve patient safety through recognized reductions in errors and improvements in multiple handoff settings. Additionally, the work of Thomas-Hawkins, et al. (2020) supports the need for current, informed evidence to address the challenges of staffing, workload, care left undone, and their relationship to patient safety.
What does EBP mean to you as a nurse? Give examples of how EBP serves as a foundation for a practice philosophy of lifelong learning.
Support these examples with literature work of Yancey,2019; Blazin, et al.,2020; and Thomas-Hawkins et al.,2020. What is the theoryto-practice gap?
How do we close this gap? Are we making progress? How does possessing an evidence-based practice philosophy impact the issues you experience on a daily basis, issues that are clearly evident in the literature?
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