Importance of Evidence-Based Practice in Health and Social Care

This document discusses the importance of evidence-based practice in health and social care, the purpose and process of conducting EBPR, skills and qualities required to conduct a literature review, skills required to conduct ethical research, and the steps involved in evidence-based practice in healthcare.

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LO1:
1. Explain why evidence-based practice is important in Health and Social Care.
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is an interdisciplinary approach that enables doctors,
medical practitioners, and several other healthcare professionals make informed clinical
decisions, which would help provide the best possible patient outcome (R. Stevens 2013).
The practice started with evidence-based medicines and later spread to different practical-
based fields like psychology, nursing, education and more. Evidence-based practice enables
the healthcare providers to easily analyse a situation and know what measures to undertake in
such cases. Thus, EBP can heed to the professional development of the healthcare providers
(Ann Lavin, Harper and Barr 2019). One of the key advantages of this practice is that it
enables wise usage of health resources and funds. EBP has largely contributed in research
based on healthcare, nursing practices, and in the advancement in the field of medicine and
medical practices. The practice has successfully improved patient outcomes and has enabled
healthcare professionals provide effective and quality interventions, with chances of less or
no mistakes
2. Describe the purpose and the process of conducting EBPR in health and Social
care
Evidence-based practice is used to ensure that the clinical practice is based on appropriate
evidence, to help ensure the improvement in the patient’s well-being. Health and Social care
require effective clinical recommendations and consultation services, which are needed to be
accurate and backed with proper evidence. Hence, the main purpose of this type of practice is
to eliminate the chances of errors in treatment of patients and instead enable quality
treatment. The process of this practice includes identification and thorough understanding of
the medical issue, which can then enable the healthcare providers and nurses, implement their

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knowledge to provide effective treatment to their patients (Ahrq.gov 2013). The process also
includes consultation sessions between the medical practitioners and patients about the
disease, the outcome of the treatment process, medications prescribed, the reason behind the
occurrence of the disease and how to prevent them further.
3. Explain which skills and qualities do you need to conduct a literature review.
A literature review can be defined as discussion of scientific articles related to a certain
issue or topic. The review consists of the reason behind the choice of topic, brief explanation
of the topic and a review or understanding of the different chosen articles on the topic
(Ramdhani, Ali Ramdhani and Syakur Amin 2014).
The following are some key skills which are required to draft or conduct a literature review:
 In-depth knowledge of the chosen topic or issue.
 Understanding the purpose and importance of the literature review.
 Ability to compare and analyse the different approaches regarding the issue chosen.
 Understanding the explanations of the different research papers thoroughly.
 Being aware of the different methodologies or approaches used in the researchers
conducted.
 Being able to clearly outline the different steps followed.
 Identifying the research gap.

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4. Analyse your own skills and qualities do you need to conduct a literature review
Skills a researcher must attain in order to successfully conduct a literature review:
 The researcher should develop a thorough understanding of the issue or the topic.
 The researcher should be able to identify the articles which are to be discussed in a
literature review in order to help identify and understand the research gap.
 He or she should be able to analyse the chosen articles and write their understanding
of the topic based on it.
 One would also require the awareness of the different methodologies that can be
employed for the chosen research topic.
Thus, in order to write a literature review, one must be able to be selective in choosing the
issue as well as the relating articles for review. They should be able to conduct a research and
literature review based on the basic moral and ethical codes of research (Mulic and Masic
2014).
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5. Evaluate which skills are required to conduct ethical research which could have a
positive influence on practice and provision in Health and Social Care.
Conducting academic research often gives rise to ethical and moral dilemmas. The
researchers should be able to analyse and detect the moral and ethical issues that might
arise from their research and how they are to address these concerns (B. Resnik 2015).
The skills which are necessary in order to ethically conduct research work in the fields of
Health and Social Care, are as follows:
 Respecting the fellow researchers as well as other participants involved in the
research work.
 The researchers should not misuse of the funds, complete disclosure of the sources
of funding and a detailed structure of the usage of funds in the research should be
maintained (Riley 2015).
 Ability to not disclose personal information of the patients as it can be considered
as a privacy violation.
 Conducting a deception free and precise research including implementation of
accurate methodologies.
 The research should be ethically and culturally appropriate and should not
discriminate against any religion or culture.
 The researchers should have a detailed knowledge of the morale and ethics and
should be able to accordingly implement in their research work, and should also
be able to cope with moral ambiguity that might arise during their research work
(Vanclay, Baines and Taylor 2013).

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LO2:
Question 1:
According to Weng et al. (2013), the paper shows the various levels of Evidence
Based Practice among medical health practitioners and it also discusses about the differences
in implementation of the Evidence Based Practice and it has been observed that there are
certain factors associated with its implementation including personal backgrounds and
understanding and perception towards Evidence Based Practice. The aim of the paper is to
suggest strategies for enhancing the implementation of Evidence Based Practice (Weng et al.
2013).
According to Morténius, Hildingh and Fridlund (2016), it has been shown that
Evidence Based Practice is associated with improved health outcome of the patients and
increased patient’s overall satisfaction. The article has shown evidences that proves Evidence
Based Practice has improved quality in care and therefore it is needed by all the healthcare
professionals to implement it. They should be able to utilize the information and data
collected by analysing evidences from previous records of the patients and create a graph
based on that, which will not only help in understanding the best treatment procedures based
on empirical data, but also, will increase the probability of an improved health outcome of the
patients.
According to the article proposed by Kamlesh Bhargava (2019) the Evidence Based
Practice should incorporate best research evidences, clinical expertise, and knowledge and
consider the patient’s values, preferences and circumstances which includes social and
cultural factors in addition to the individual’s ideas and expectation. Good history taking,
years of experiences and physical examination contributes to clinical expertise. In order to
incorporate Evidence Based Practice in the treatment strategies, the health professionals must

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take a note on valid information on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease
(Kamlesh Bhargava 2019).
According to Titler (2019) in his article, focuses on the implementation of Evidence
Based Practice in Healthcare sectors by guiding on how implementations and interventions
are used to bring Evidence Based Practice into effect to promote patient’s safety and improve
health outcome. In order to implement Evidence Based Practice several strategies are needed
to be considered. Moreover, there are different approaches to implement Evidence Based
Practice since a strategy that has worked in one setting may not work effectively in other
settings. Therefore, it is important to understand and suggest several context variables in the
implementation of Evidence Based Practice (Titler 2019).
Melnyk et al. (2014), conducts his study is to develop a set of Evidence Based
Practice competencies foe Registered Nurses and APNs used in healthcare organizations in
order to achieve an improved and consistent performance and maintain the use of Evidence
Based Practice. It has been shown that Evidence Based Practice enhances quality care by
promoting health outcome of the patients and becoming cost effective. The article talks about
several steps to implement Evidence Based Practice that includes PICO question (Purpose,
Intervention, comparison and outcome), Searching for best evidences, critically appraising
the evidences, assimilating the evidences with clinical expertise to make the best use out of it
to promote an improved health outcome, Evaluating the outcomes of the evidences and
propagating the outcomes (Melnyk et al. 2014).
Question 2:
The findings of the literature review provided us with the knowledge of the
importance of evidence based practice in healthcare and better communication in the field of
care giving. It is necessary to implement evidence based practice in a health care setting to

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better asses the health condition, severity, treatment and its better outcomes without any
misconduct of the process (Riley 2015). The literature reviews also stated that, the evidence
based practice in health care setting enhances the quality of care and treatment provided by
promoting better health outcome for the patients and is also found to be cost effective for
both the health care providers and researchers.
Question 3:
Communication has a major role in today health care setting, according to Semino,
Demjén and Demmen (2016). It has been proving to be one of the most effective process to
better understand a patient needs and requirements and provide them with better care and
treatment. according to various, it has been seen that, poor communication and inter-
professional collaboration may lead to deprived care and treatment delivery.
Question 4:
The literature review conducted is reliable and focuses on the issues and the topic of
discussion slected.it provides the understanding and research finding of the current status of
the evidence based practice and healthcare setting in providing better care and treatment to
the patients. It also provides the overall analysis of the current status of the practice in the
world wide health care settings.

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LO3:
Question 1:
The evidence based practice has a major role is providing better option to deliver
effective care and treatment in a health care setting. There are five major steps for the
evidence-based practice in health care which includes the formation of a medical question,
after which comes the gathering of the most effective evidence that can be used in order to
address the clinical question (Grove and Cipher 2016). The third step is to critically evaluate
the most effective evidence, the fourth is the merging of the evidence with the experience of
the clinical professionals and, the patient's health condition, resources which are available and
the preferences of the patients and values leading to coming to the final health care decision;
and the evaluation of the outcomes after the implementation of the evidence for the
determination of the practice changes (Beckmann and Lew 2016). The benefits of the
evidence base practice are that it has major role in minimizing the cost of health care setting
and treatment process making it available foe each and every individual seeking medical
assistance and care ultimately helping in conducting better health care researches.
Question 2:
Project proposal
Introduction:
Evidence-based practice enables the healthcare providers to easily analyse a situation
and know what measures to undertake in such cases ((Melnyk et al. 2014). The aim of the
project proposal is to provide a guidance and format to the research that needs to be
conducted.
Problem statement:

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the issues faced are a major cause of deprived health care outcomes. While delivering proper
care and service delivery it is important to address the needs and requirements of an
individual. When there in lack of communication and the settings do not use evidence based
practice in the settings, the rate of better health outcomes and recovery of the patient stars to
decreases.
Objective:
The main objective is to understand the use of evidence based practice and
communication in clinical setting and also the use of literature reviews to restore the issues
that has been creating difficulties in care delivery process.
Action plan:
The action plan that needs to be addressed it to provide the information and
understanding to the professionals as wells the other staffs regarding the need and
requirement of practicing evidence based practice and better therapeutic communication to
elaborate the treatment delivery and better outcome expectancy. It will be required to provide
proper training and learning lessons to the settings as well as the staffs.
Results:
The results demonstrate better and enhanced care delivery and service delivery I
health care and social care settings. The treatment process is individual précised and provide
effective outcomes for the patients.
Question 3:
The rationale of the proposed research study is to provide the better understanding
and care delivery in a health care setting using the evidence based practice and
communication playing the major role in care and treatment delivery in health care settings

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and social areas (Kamlesh Bhargava 2019). The proposed research project will provide a
better understanding and a method to better assess patient conditions and needs in order to
provide better and advanced treatment. The proposed research project is important as it is
essential to know the condition and requirements of the patients to provide an enhanced
treatment and care. The project proposal has also an important aim towards assessing the
issues that has been witnessed and the use of literature review has provided with better
understanding of the factors.
Question 4:
The project proposal conducted has the ability to elaborate the issues that the health
care delivery and service providing process has been witnessing for the past few decades. The
literature review conducted provided the identical findings and providing the idea about the
issues that has been witnessed by the healthcare services. The evidence based practice has a
major role is providing better option to deliver effective care and treatment in a health care
setting. The incorporation of the evidence based practice has provided the proper condition to
assess the issues, the stakeholders and the strategies to overcome the issue (Kostalova and
Tetrevova 2018). The literature review discuses about the communication and evidence base
practice in a health care setting and the findings of their effective incorporation and condition
after not applying them in practices. The project proposal discus the similar issue that were
discussed in the literature review conducted.
LO 4:
Question 1:
It is to encourage and force more focus on evidences on decision making of
professionals. Its main aim is to rule out outdated practices which are unsystematic and
unprofessional. It has proved as an apt tool in physical therapy in 1990’s. Literature reviews

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has influenced Evidence Based Practice in long terms by the primary studies of Evidence
Based Practice by enhancing following factors: -
(a) Necessary abilities and skills of the nursing staff and the other health care
professionals along with the researchers (Kamlesh Bhargava 2019).
(b) Changes has also been involved due to the Evidence Based Practice in various
health care practices such as assessment of the health condition, disease and difficulties in
care delivery.
(c) Resources that has been involved in Evidence Based Practice has also been
enhanced and it has ultimately effected the current nursing practice.
(d) Systematic reviews, diffusion of innovations, quality improvement and change
management has been incorporated in the nursing and research field due to Evidence Based
Practice. which is one of the greatest contribution towards the development of the field of
practice and care delivery (Riley 2015).
Question 2:
There are various of research findings which have been proving the importance and
need of literature review in a health care setting along with the evidenced based practice in a
health care setting and care delivery process. It has a major role in providing the professionals
with better evidence base knowledge and understanding of the current difficulties and issues
patient as well as the health care professional face while delivery of care. The recent research
has provided us with the information regarding the positive outcomes and benefits of the
evidence base practice and communication in care delivery and it has been seen that
incorporating the practice has enhanced the care delivery and service providing condition
when compared ton the past few years (Gray and Malins 2016). The literature review has
helped in collecting data and information from various research articles providing diver

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knowledge about a single issue, and incorporating and addressing the issues has help in
developing the condition of treatment and care.
Question 3:
Learning is the process of acquiring new knowledge, behaviours, skills and values.
The personal research has their impact in several ways and means in which an individual
gains the authority to evolve his/her knowledge, understanding, learns about the difficulties
and finds appropriate strategies to overcome. It also supports the individual in their spiritual
growth and educational development in their respective field. the project research has
enhanced the ability to understand the importance of evidence based practice and
communication in a health care setting and it has also provided with the skills to deal out with
the difficulties and issues in day to day works whether it is for professional or personal
purpose and also has enhanced the understanding regarding appropriateness in care delivery
(Mulic and Masic 2014).

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