Steps of the Evidence-Based Practice Process and Their Importance

Running head: EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE
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EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE 2
Steps of the evidence-based practice process and their importance
Evidence-based practice process (EBP) refers to judicious use of the recent best proves in
making decisions about the health care of a patient. The EBP keep nurses updated. This proves
are acquired from clinical evidences from various researches. It has various advantages. For
instance, providing the best care available. Hence, improved patient outcome is one of their main
aims. We are going to discuss the EBP steps one by one.
1. Ask a clinical guiding question
This is where the practitioner assesses the patient (Rubak, Sandbæk, Lauritzen, Borch-
Johnsen, & Christensen, 2009) . The patient presents his physical or mental symptoms.
The practitioner then designs an appropriate query that takes in consideration the
symptoms of the patient. This is so that the practitioner provides the best options to the
patient. Therefore, the patient is the source of the information.
2. Search for the best evidence
After the enquiry the practitioner then looks for resources from databases. PubMed,
MEDLINE and CINAHL are best resources for nurses. Those databases use MeSH
subject headings as the official terms to describe concepts related to medical articles.