Evidence Based Practice in Healthcare

Evidence base practice

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Introduction to Quality and Quality Improvement.................................................................1
Situational Awareness and Patient safety...............................................................................3
Introduction to Patient Safety.................................................................................................4
Clinical Leadership.................................................................................................................5
Research & Evidence Based Practice (EBP)..........................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFLECTION.................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Quality of care is referred as the extent to which health care services for individuals
maximize the likelihood of desired outcomes of health and are consistent with the existing or
current professional knowledge. Healthcare quality is very important term which encompasses
various aspects of care of patient. It is a care which is safe, patient-centred, efficient, timely,
equitable and effective. Within the health care settings, safety of patient is a crucial aspect of
health care quality. It is very important to measure and evaluate the care provided to patients so
that improvements can be made effectively (Ajay, and et. al., 2016).
This report is based on the clinical case scenario of a frail patient who was 84 years old and
had history of falls. Because of falling from the bed, he was child due to hip fractures. This
report discusses about the evidence related to clinical decision making as well as the
accountability of each individual involved. It covers the information about quality and quality
improvement in the health care practices along with emphasizing on the situation awareness in
patient safety (Brooks, and Peetz, 2017). Apart from this, it includes information about
effectiveness of evidence-based practices to assess the new ways of caring. In addition to this,
clinical leadership, patient safety and quality improvement aspects of providing care are
discussed in the report.
MAIN BODY
Introduction to Quality and Quality Improvement
The quality of care in healthcare relates to interaction between the patients and the health
care providers and the ways in which health system inputs are transformed into health outcomes.
The provided care to the patient must be evidence-based, effective and neither overused nor
underused. The clinical processes are attributable directly to the behaviour of care providers as
well as their measurement can administer critical initiating point in development of methods to
enhance the care get by the patients. Although, the outcomes of health can be informative, there
possibility to be crude quality measure due to inherent predictability in the responses of patients
to healthcare (Carayon, 2016).
Providing quality care to the patient is very important in order to get effective outcomes.
There are some principles based on which the quality of healthcare is measured. One of the
principle is to measure the perceived to quality as well as compared with clinical quality. Apart
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