Justification of Application of EBP Process

Running head: LITERATURE SEARCH PROTOCAL 1
Literature Search Protocol
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LITERATURE SEARCH PROTOCAL 2
Justification of Application of EBP Process
EPB as it stands, it is process that involves locating and applying findings from a research to the
practice in clinical set up. the process starts at the time when arises a clinical problem or
question relating to the acre of the patient. There is a great need to apply EPB process in
clinical context regardless of when and where the need has occurred or arisen. According to
André, Aune, and Brænd (2016)), the goal of the EPB movement is to standardize and cause
improvement in access and quality of care across the heath care system. Applying the process
will help improve the outcomes in the patients. Focusing heavily on raising the general quality of
care may certainly lead to improved outcomes ad health for the patients. Application of the most
recent healthcare research could help minimize, reduce or eliminate complications related to
chronic illnesses likely to be transferred to the patients due to nurses’ ignorance and prevent
further additional sickness or illness to the patient. Uzafa-Martinez, Molina-Salas and Ramos-
Morcillo (2016) also notes that application of EBP plays a big role in reducing costs of care.
There are a lot of people already having the diseases that would potentially be transmitted by
the nurses to the patients because of the improper hand hygiene and the cost of treating an
additional number of individuals patients would often be significant. Application of the EPB
approach that is patient centered may help a lot in eliminating costs ta are linked to treating
patients who are ill as at the same time reducing expenses for those patients. According to
Christenbery (2017), the approach could turn out to developing superior nursing skills.
Incorporation of EPB throughout the education of the nurses and throughout their work
experience developed more skills on critical thinking and decision making. Majority if nurses are
placed at a better place of handling and adapting to situations, work in interdisciplinary teams
and utilize informatics. Additionally, I make them feel a sense of confidence and have pride in
whatever they ado. This will consequentially make the nurses love their jon and dot it with their
whole hearts.
The nurse should know and have the answer to the question of concern because hygiene is part
of primary care. Primary health care is one of the basic topic that should always be at the finger
tips in nurses’ entire education and experience life. Therefore, the first person to have a better
knowledge when it comes to the question of concern is the nurse because they are at a better
position to understand and still, they are at liberty to investigate and find out if they are not sure.
The bottom line id that nurses must have the answer to the question so that it will form part and
parcel of every activity they will ever do on the patient regardless of time.
Answerable Question Breakdown
PICO process is applied in the evidenced based medicine to frame an answer or a question that
is care related.
In the case of our question it is important to look at the question keenly is that we will approach
it with a clear mindset from our knowledge regarding the situation at hand.
P stands for problem, patent or population would be the hospital acquired infection
I stand for intervention or indicator and this is case it will mean hand washing which is the
remedy to the situation at hand

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C on the other hand stands for Comparison. It means if there is no hand washing, other
solutions like use of masks.
Finally, we have O which stands for outcome or interest. In this case it would lead to reduction
in infection. addressing the question in this manner, it makes it easy and familiar to achieve the
desire outcome.
Search Strategy Protocol
To develop the search strategy protocol, you start developing a search by
identifying the key words and concepts within the question because it can never
bring exactly what you might be looking for in the database. Because it will require
one to identify search by identifying the key words and concepts, you will identify
hand hygiene and nursing practice. You will then maintain treating each concept as
different. For every concept, you list down the key words obtained from the
question as well as any other thing that will seem relevant or the synonyms likely to
have found in my preliminary searches. From this point you key in the key words
and concepts. For example, in this case you choose hand hygiene and slightly
change the second part so that the whole statement will be referred to as hand
hygiene and nursing practice. It is important to note that when you try at first to key
in the broader statement, the database might not find whatever you are interested
in; the data base might display that the choice of your words is too long and you
need to be specific. It is because of this reason that one should chose those very
key words to determine whatever they are looking. Upon looking at the results for
the articles you will be looking for, you will observe that the first ten results of the
articles will provide hints and one could easily get whatever they were looking.
However, the results are 17 but the results being needed were ten articles because
there is need to control the limit of the articles that could be picked while focusing
on the relevancy including the year of publication (5yers old at maximum).