Identifying EBP Role in Health and Social Care: Objectives and Methods

This report provides an in-depth exploration of evidence-based practices (EBP) in healthcare and social care. The introduction establishes EBP as a lifelong learning process crucial for improving patient care through effective communication. The report emphasizes the importance of EBP in providing the best available care, promoting inquiry among health professionals, and ensuring efficient use of resources. It outlines the EBP process, including asking questions, searching for evidence, critically appraising findings, implementing practices, and evaluating outcomes. A literature review examines the role of communication in healthcare, highlighting its significance in understanding patients and addressing communication barriers. The report includes a research proposal focusing on understanding consumers through EBP, and discusses the benefits of EBP in research, the impact of literature review on health services, and the implications of personal research on learning and practice. The conclusion reinforces the value of EBP in healthcare, emphasizing the need for continuous improvement and high-quality service delivery.

Fundamentals of Evidence-Based
Practice

Introduction
Evidence based practices is a life long learning process which support a health
care practitioner in improving their practice method continuously and approach
to better patient care. In EBP, communication skill plays a crucial role by
ensuring proper gathering and understanding of information to provide better
patient care.

Importance of evidence based practices in Health and
Social care
EBP is crucial for health and social care organization as it aims toward providing best care available
for the patient. The importance of EBP are mentioned below:
• EBP helps in providing the most effective care by considering the best available evidence in order to
improve the patient outcome.
• EBP support in promoting an attitude of inquiry among health professional that results into
improving the health care service quality.
• It ensures the use of finite health resources in wise manner and relevant evidence consideration
which making funding health service decisions.

Proposal
Aim “To identify the role of Evidence based practices (EBP) in Health and
social care
Objectives  To determine the importance of EBP for health care practitioner
 To identify the challenges that healthcare practitioner face while
implementing EBP
 To ascertain the role of EBP for current health issues faced by patients.
Methods used  Qualitative method is used for performing this investigation which
support in performing in-depth evaluation of data.
 Secondary source is used to gather information as it allow gathering of
authenticated information from published sources.

Importance of evidence based practices in Health and
Social care
EBP is crucial for health and social care organization as it aims toward providing best care available
for the patient. The importance of EBP are mentioned below:
EBP helps in providing the most effective care by considering the best available evidence in order to
improve the patient outcome.
EBP support in promoting an attitude of inquiry among health professional that results into improving
the health care service quality.
It ensures the use of finite health resources in wise manner and relevant evidence consideration which
making funding health service decisions.

Process of conducting evidence based practices
The evidence based practice within a health care institute constitute of five major
steps that are,
Ask question
Search
Critically appraise
Implement
Evaluate

Skills & Quality required for literature review
Personal skills Professional skills
Reading & Writing skills
Critical thinking skill
Communication skill
Time management skills
Theoretical and methodological
contributions
Being ethical
Investigating the findings
Findings and conclusion

Own Skills and knowledge for conducting literature review
 The ability of critical thinking is my positive point as I belongs from the medical
background so I am having proper knowledge regarding the aspects of health and
social care. Therefore I am also able to determining their opinion of people who are
having similar sort of knowledge to conduct literature.
 My reading and writing skills are good which support me in assessing number of
sources so that accurate information can be gathered and over this I usually write
some notes to remember it for later which support me writing the literature review
effectively.

Skills required to conduct ethical research
• Honesty and integrity
• Carefulness
• Openness
• Confidentiality

Introduction to literature review
Communication is consider to be a crucial factor within health and social care which allows
the care providers to understand the patients and make best advice to them for cure. As by
communicating with patients effectively it become easier for the healthcare service provider to
gather information regarding particular case by reviewing information from several sources and
then concluding the final outcome.

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St Gemma’s Hospice is a care institute which provides care to possible care to local people with life
limiting illness. Principles and key responsibilities of this hospital are:
•Respect and value patients, carers, staff and all those we work with
•Innovate and integrate with local clinical practice
•Inspire and support continual development and sharing of knowledge
•Build capacity to ensure a sustainable academic unit
•Be responsible and accountable for the standard of our work
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6Cs and ten commitments: nurses' understanding and use
of courage
An article is given by Barchard F, sixsmith J, Nall S et al., 2017 which presents information
regarding 6Cs and ten commitments by providing an understanding of courage, leading
change and adding value framework that are crucial for a healthcare provider in order to
deliver better outcome. This article presented several grounded and research theories which
state that the delivery of compassionate care is only possible with the courage, skills and
commitment that are consider as the highest priority of a health care professional.