CHALLENGES TO HEALTHCARE PRACTICES2 Challenges facing Healthcare practices Evidence-based practice is a policy that enables a nurse to provide patient-centered services through a critical appraisal of scientifically endorsed resources and materials. This Evidence- based practice provides offers a lot of advantages to nurses during their activities. The skills possessed by nurses are important in the implementation of this practice to ensure that the needs of patients are met. The adoption of this plan has faced a lot of challenges due to various barriers. The inability of the management to improve procedures employed in caring patients is one of the barriers to Evidence-based practice(LoBiondo-Wood & Haber, 2017). In United States of America, it is witnessed that the hospital, nursing homes, health centers, and clinics lack appropriate authority to execute patient-centered activities in their premise. If the authorities are present, the personnel are not competent in analyzing the information provided in the evidence articles. Lack of sufficient time to implement and put it into practice. Most nurses are busy in their daily operations, therefore, the time has become a barrier in adopting new ideas in the concerned facilities. The practice offers pivotal components and amicable solutions for addressing health- related problems, therefore, strategies to overcome the barriers are needed so that quality services are offered to patients. The barrier of incompetence authority can be addressed by involving other stakeholders in the implementation process(Tacia, Biskupski, Pheley & Lehto, 2015).this is because experience is paramount in the adoption of the Evidence-based practice. Insufficient time can be avoided by seeking support from the administration. The government may assist the nurses by recruiting more staff and providing efficient techniques that save time.
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