Evidence Based Practice In Nursing

Abstract

Evidence based practice allows nurses to enrich their clinical training and experience with up to date research. Evidence based nursing is one approach that may enable nurses to manage the explosion of new literature and technology and ultimately may result in improved patient outcomes. Evidence based practice involves an ability to access, summarize and apply information from the literature to day to day clinical problems. Evidence based practice requires an emphasis on systematic observation and experience and a reliance on the research literature to substantiate nursing decisions. Evidence based practice allows practioners to meet a daily need for valid information about clinical situations. The skills of evidence based practice allows nurses to search for, assess and apply the literature to their clinical situations.