Fundamentals of Evidence-Based Practice

This presentation provides an overview of the fundamentals of evidence-based practice in health and social care. It covers the importance and process of conducting evidence-based practice, the skills and qualities required for literature reviews, and the benefits of evidence-based practices. It also explores effective communication techniques in the healthcare sector and the influence of literature reviews on evidence-based practices.

Fundamentals of Evidence-
Based Practice

Cover Content
• Introduction
• Importance of evidence based practices in Health & Social Care
• Purpose and Process of conducting evidence based practice in Health & Social Care
• Skills and qualities which are required to conduct a literature review
• Analysis of own skills and knowledge in being able to conduct literature review
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
• Evidence based practice is an essential concept that refer to purposeful use of the best and
latest evidence in making the most effective and important decisions about patient and health
care. It can be a problem solving approach to the delivery of health care that integrates the
best evidence from studies, research and patient care information with clinician expertise and
patient preferences and values. EBP is the integration of clinical expertise, patient value and
the best research evidence in to the decision making process fro health care. Evidence based
practice is important for applying clinical care which is based on cultural tradition. The aims
and objectives of EBP is provide the high quality and cot effective health services to the
clients so that they can feel satisfaction

Importance of evidence based practice
• In Health and Social care sector, EBP is important because the main objective of it to offer
the most effective care that is available with the motive of improving patient outcomes. The
importance of evidence based practice is as following:
• To provide effective care
• Reduce cost of patient care

Purpose and process of conducting evidence based
practice
• Purpose of evidence based practice- the main objective of EBP is to insure that clinical
recitation is depend on stable information and patients get advantages in term of outputs.
Information based practice seeks to regenerate exercise as usual with recitation target-
hunting by religious result destined investigation, ideally irregular pressurized trials. The
purpose of EBP is to provide good quality and cost effective health services, to increase
satisfaction between patients and help in maximizing the level of confidence in decision
making.

Skills and qualities which are required to conduct
literature review
• Literature review is basically a discussion of scholarly articles relevant to a specific topic of
issues. It can be a survey books, area of research, theory and by so doing which provides a
description, summary and critical evaluation of the work in context to the research issue
being find out and investigate. There are different kind of skills which are required to
conduct a literature review in health and social care sector, some of them are as mentioned
below:
• Communication skills
• Time management skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Problem solving skills

Analysis of own skills and knowledge in being able to
conduct literature review
• Being a researcher to conduct a literature review, I will required good
reading, writing, communication, critical thing and time management
skills. For conducting this process, I have good reading, writing and
time management skills. These all skill are helpful for writing a
effective literature and completing it on time. With the help of reading
skill, I gather effective and required evidence according to the topic and

Evaluation of the skills which are required
to conduct ethical research
• There are different skills like report writing, data collection, planning and scheduling,
critical analysis, time management, critical thinking, problem solving and others are required
to conduct ethical research. These all skills are required to conduct n ethical research because
they create positive impact on practice and provision in health and social care. Researcher
can complete their research in effective and ethical manner with the help of these skills. For
example, if an individual conducting a research regarding a disease like Tuberculosis, then
with the help of report writing skill, the person can prepare a report regarding it. (Ryan,
2016)With the help of data collection skill, the person can gather information in context of
this disease then planning to organise research in ethical manner.

Conduct a literature review using a range of sources
• Introduction- Communication is most important skill and competency to share and transfer
information to one person to another. The topic of the literature review is “communication
skills in practice”. The reason to conduct this process is to identify the influence of
communication skills and techniques on results for service users in a social and health care
service. This recent research is based on NHS which is a social and health care firm.

To understand the effectiveness of communication
in social and healthcare sector
• Each and every patient who comes to hospital has a team of people embroiled in furnishing
care passim their healthful process: form doctors, nurses, culinary teams, family and others.
communication is important in this sector to identify and getting information about the
disease of the patient so that they can providing treatment according to that. There are two
types of communication verbal and non verbal. These both are used by the doctors and
nurses on different patients to gather information to identify the reason or causes.

Tools and techniques which can be used to ensure
effective communication
• There are various tools and techniques like verbal, non verbal, written, use of body language
etc. which are used by doctors and nurses to make effective communication with the patients
and clients. These all tools are effective because with the help of all of these, they can make
communication with their clients and getting information regarding their issues and problems

Explanation of the outcomes of the literature review
• The result of this literature review is that it help in outlining the effectiveness of various
different tools and techniques of communication. This process help in providing information
about the effectiveness of communication in social and health sector. With the help
communication tools, service provider can gather or collect information about the patients.
For example, if an individual who is unable to speak then the service provider can use
written and body language tools and techniques of communication. These all are helpful for
making interaction with them and gathering information regarding their issues.

Summarise current knowledge about communication
• Communication is process of interaction with others and sharing or transferring information
about any specific topic and issues. It is an essential and effective process which is helpful to
collect data about an individual. There are different types of communication like oral, written
and visual communication. These all are effective for social and healthcare sector to collect
information about the person who are taking services form this industry. There are different
tools of communication like internet, chat rooms, discussion forums etc. which are used to
share and transfer information to one person to another.

Evaluation of the reliability and validity of literature
review
• Literature review help in identifying the issues, problems, develops the background which
provide ad offer a history about the topic and issues. For example, as per the defined
literature review, it can be monitored that the process is valid and reliable because it conduct
on a specific topic “ communication skill in practice”. It provide effective information and
conduct by using particular or specific tools, methods and formats like introduction, main
body and conclusion.

Benefits of evidence based practices
• Evidence based practices provides various benefits to ample number of individuals
associated with Health and Social care. Some of the practices provides benefits to its patients,
nurses, health care and many more. All of these are explained in detail as below:
• Benefits for Patients
• Benefits for Nurses:

Proposed research project and its relation with
communication
Background The present research includes an evaluation of effective communication process in order
to deal with adverse or challenging situations. It is very essential for the staff to make
adequate conversation with their patients, for making them healthy and safe as well as
anxiety free as soon as possible. Therefore, it is required to examine potential
communication barriers as well as its techniques to overcome them within health and
social care.
Literature Review It refers to a cascading process of analysing, reading, summing up and searching data
which is related with a particular topic. It means to examine various sources of collecting
information such as journals, books, websites, articles, government reports and many
more which provide detail description related to a topic.
Aim To examine the influence of communication skills and techniques which improves
patients outcomes in health & social care.

Objective  To ascertain the impacts of effective communication on the patients outcomes.
 To determine the concept of communication within health & social care.
Sample Sample size is 40 and researcher adopt random sampling technique.
Data collection. In this, data is collected through secondary method which includes journals, books, websites,
articles and many more.
Ethical considerations It is used to ensure that the researcher maintain privacy of their respondents and other factors.
Conclusion It has been concluded that with the help of effective communication, it will reduce risk as well
as improve the outcomes.

Rationale for selection of topic
• Major reason behind choosing this topic for conducting whole research is that it will aid in
enhancing the overall communication skill of the whole industry of health and social care.
Along with this, it will aid in enhancing the knowledge of researcher regarding the topic.
One of the main reason behind conducting this research is to determine the influence of
communication techniques and skills on the output for service users in health and social care.
Apart from this, it is the topic used by researcher in order to know the meaning of evidence
based practice. By selecting the topic, researcher wants to enhance its skills and knowledge
regarding communication skills in evidence based practices.

Evaluation of the reliability and validity of proposed
research
• Above mention proposal aid in identifying the objectives, research aim and many more about
the research topic and issues. For instance, above mention is a proposal which includes aims,
objectives, sample size, methodology and many other things. It has been identified that it is
the proposal which is valid and reliable as it includes authentic research topic and aim. With
the aid of this research proposal, investigator will be able to gain effective knowledge about
the topic which is “ influence of communication skills and techniques in order to enhance the
health and social care of individuals.” It will provide proper data and information by using
tools, techniques, methods and other technology.

Literature review influences evidence based health and
social care practices.
• Literature review refers to a summary of research topic which is conducted by someone else.
With the aid of literature review, researcher will be able to have full understanding about a
particular topic. Literature review is the framework which have information gathered from
articles, books, journals, newspaper and internet. All these information's included is based on
the perception of authors and researchers. Literature review highly influence the evidence
based practices in both positive as well as negative manner.

Positive impact on current practices to improve service
deliver.
• In the present research, investigator have positive impact as individuals will be able to
understand the benefits of proper communication, in order to improve the services. It has
been identified that, it is very important to have effective communication skills as with the
aid of this required information will be shared among staff members working within the
organisation. Evidence based practices enhance the current practices implemented by various
organisation within their workplace. In order to improve the service delivery, it is very
essential to have effective communication skills and have proper and adequate information
which is required for providing high quality services.

Personal research process impact on learning and practice in the
workplace.
• In the whole journey of conducting this research, I have faced various positive as well as
negative issues, which affects the whole learning process. While gathering information and
data, for conducting this whole research, I have to listen and understand the thoughts,
problems, ideas, issues and views of lot of sick people. All these people help me in order to
find a solution regarding these problems and making correct and effective decisions. All
these things helps me in improving the communication skill and enhance my confidence
level. This research help me in order to develop my knowledge and skills and aid me in near
future for my overall growth. Along with my personal, professional life also affected with
this in a positive manner and help me in improving my learnings.

Own Journey for improving the evidence based health
and care practices.
• Through my investigation, I have examine various things which helps in developing positive
and high quality services and satisfy patients. I have contributed a lot in order to improve the
evidence health care and to enhance the knowledge regarding importance of communication.
With this research, it has been identified that with the assistants of effective communication
skills, doctors and nurses will provide high quality services to their patience. They make
them healthy and sick free. I have faced various problems and issues while conducting this
research. Main objective of Evidence Based Practices is to ensure that before implementing
any kind of practices, doctors and nurses need to be sure and produce positive outcomes.

Conclusion
• From the above mention report, it has been concluded that with the help of effective
communication skills, any practices will be implemented in an effective manner. With the
assistance of this, they will be able to reduce difficult situations and convert challenging
situation into positive. Apart from this Evidence based practice is essential for implementing
clinical care based on cultural tradition. It has also been identified that, its major aim and
objectives is to provide high quality along with cost effective services to their patience. With
the help of this, patience feel satisfied and built trust on the advance practices. Therefore, it is
very important to keep the practices effective, current as well as relevant in order to take
better decisions. In addition to this, it is the report which includes a research proposal.

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