EvidenceBasedPracticeNaide.docx

Evidence-Based Practice
Naidelyn Delgado
Miami Regional University
NUR4100
Roberto Carmona
June 9, 2021
 
 

 
Evidence-based practice has as a purpose the goal of improving patient care. By taking into consideration evidence of previous knowledge and putting it into practice, it can help change current use of medicine to better the quality of patient’s health, and at times maybe save their lives. In a study performed by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, it states that as a nurse, if you feel capable in your job duties, you can better implement evidence-based practice into your work area. As a professional, using evidence-based practice prevents errors from happening, since certain steps or processes are already known mistakes from the past. The personnel must be willing to listen and apply the data learned into their own practice, and at the end analyze if the approach they used was helpful in completing their task. Every day we use EBP, at times without realizing that we are doing so; being mindful of it will help us and others by supplying the knowledge we gathered, so in that way other healthcare personnel can use the information as well in to a better job.
 

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