NRS-490: Examining Barriers to EBP Implementation in Nursing

This report delves into the challenges of implementing evidence-based practice (EBP) in nursing, highlighting the significant barriers that impede its widespread adoption. The report emphasizes the importance of EBP, as the institute of Medicine has a goal of 90% of the practice should be evidence-based by 2020, the United States is currently at approximately 15%. The report identifies inadequate access to information technology and a lack of IT skills as major obstacles. It explores how these limitations affect the ability of nurses to analyze patient problems, apply research findings, and improve patient care. The analysis emphasizes the crucial role of information technology in all aspects of EBP, from data analysis to the application of best practices. The report references relevant literature to support its findings and provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges facing EBP implementation in nursing, thus emphasizing the need for improved IT infrastructure and training to enhance patient outcomes.

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The institute of Medicine stated a goal that 90% of practice be evidence-based by 2020.
According to healthy people gov. the United States is currently at approximately 15%.
The evidence-based practice is the process in which the best evidence is selected to make
several decisions regarding patient care. The use of best evidence is included in this practice. But
this practice of nursing faces several barriers in the overall nursing and healthcare process. These
barriers decrease the use of evidence in the solutions of patient care (Tacia, et al., 2012) The two
essential barriers in achieving the goal of using evidence-based practice are discussed below-
 One of the major barriers is inadequate access to information technology.
 The other major barriers are the lack of IT skills that is essential in using evidence-based
practice.
There are different ways included in the process of nursing in which evidence-based practice
may be used. The different ways include:
 To analyze the problem of the patient,
 To apply several research findings in the particular clinical practice and
 To apply these practices in improving patient care.
Thus, for all these processes, the proper knowledge of information technology is
important as without information technology nothing can be performed by the nursing staff. So,
inadequate information technology is addressed in this process (Williams, et al., 2012). All the
process of EBP needs knowledge of information technology and IT skills. So, the major barriers
of EBP are related to these things only. These barriers addressed in these processes.

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References
Tacia, L., Biskupski, K., Pheley, A., & Lehto, R. H. (2015). Identifying barriers to evidence-
based practice adoption: A focus group study. Clinical Nursing Studies, 3(2), 90-96.
Williams, B., Perillo, S., & Brown, T. (2015). What are the factors of organisational culture in
health care settings that act as barriers to the implementation of evidence-based practice?
A scoping review. Nurse education today, 35(2), e34-e41.