Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing: Literature Review and Analysis

This essay provides an overview of evidence-based practice (EBP) in nursing, emphasizing its significance in improving patient care and outcomes. The essay begins with an introduction to EBP, highlighting its role in promoting advanced care approaches and keeping nurses updated with the latest research. A literature review is then presented, discussing how EBP enhances decision-making, critical thinking, and the development of research skills. The review also addresses the benefits of EBP in knowledge development, experience, and therapeutic relationship building. Despite its advantages, the essay acknowledges potential drawbacks, such as the need for research skills and effective networking. The importance of EBP in primary and other healthcare processes is emphasized, along with the need for education and training programs for healthcare professionals to facilitate its implementation. The essay concludes by reiterating the importance of EBP in nursing and its positive impact on customer satisfaction and patient outcomes. The essay references several scholarly articles to support the claims made.

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Introduction
Evidence based practice (EBP) is one of the advance processes or approach which has
been followed by the nurses in recent time frame. This process helps the nurses to follow the
advance care approach and also helps them to being updated. Hence, it can be found that that the
EBP is the process which helps the nurses to conduct extensive research and be updated with the
recent and advanced care processes. It can also be seen that the evidence based care practice
helps the nurses in decision making processes effectively. Thus, it can be highlighted that it is
one of the effective processes in critical thinking and decision making approach development. In
the following section the importance and effectiveness of the EBP will be discussed with the
help of literatures.
Literature Review
According to Curtis, Comiskey and Dempsey (2016), EBP is one of the processes of the
nursing care providence which helps the nurses in researching on the topic. The research helps in
the knowledge development about the disease and the proper care planning. Moreover, the
process of the EBP helps the nurses in decision making regarding the care plan of the patient.
The factor of the knowledge development and assessment of the disease would be improved in
accordance with the process of EBP. Thus, it can be stated that the EBP helps in the critical
analysis and proper factorising of the disease care plan. The EBP also helps in the determination
of the disease development processes and required intervention planning as well. It has been
found that the evidence based care also helps the nurses in effective knowledge development and
also developing experience regarding the care process (Rojjanasrirat & Rice, 2017). On the other
hand the process of the EBP also helps the nurses in researching that is the development of the

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research skills. Thus, on this context it can be stated that the EBP is very much effective in the
proper analysis and critical thinking. On this context it can be found that the process of the care
should be provided with accurate health care knowledge and skills which can be developed with
the help of the EBP. Hence, it can be found that the process of the care should be provided with
the knowledge of the proper knowledge and the effective development of the skills. Hence, the
EBP should be implemented with priority. However, it has been found that the process of the
EBP has some drawbacks as well as the EBP requires knowledge and skills of research and also
effective knowledge about the critical thinking as well (Butler, Hall & Copnell, 2016).
Moreover, the process requires the effective networking and database for the researching. Thus,
it can be stated that the process of the care can be improved by the implementation of the EBP
and it helps in the reduction of the negative outcome for the patients. Hence, it can be found that
that the EBP is the process which helps the nurses to conduct extensive research and be updated
with the recent and advanced care processes. It can also be seen that the evidence based care
practice helps the nurses in decision making processes effectively. On this context it can also be
stated that the patient centered care and the evidence based care practice is integrated and thus
the implementation of this process of care should be considered with highest priority as well.
However, the drawbacks of the practice should be also be considered with priority as the process
affects the health man power and sometimes it cannot be effective as well. Furthermore, the
effective knowledge development also helps in the implementation of the therapeutic
relationship development along with the patient centred care. Hence, it can be stated that the
EBP is one of the most effective and important process in the nursing care process. The factor of
the knowledge development of the care process should be developed with the EBP (Hickman et
al., 2018). It has been seen that the implementation of the EBP improved the care improvement

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and also the improvement of the outcome of the patients in significant level. Hence, the EBP
should be provided to the patients with priority and it has been found that this is very much
important as well.
Based on the views of Black, Balneaves, Garossino, Puyat and Qian (2015), EBP should
be promoted for the improvement of the care facility in the primary and other health care
processes as well. On this context it can be found that the process of the care should be provided
with accurate health care knowledge and skills which can be developed with the help of the EBP.
On this context it can be found that the care procedure has been improved with the
implementation of the EBP. Hence, it can be found that the process of the care should be
provided with the knowledge of the proper knowledge and the effective development of the
skills. Hence, the EBP should be implemented with priority.
However, it has been found that the attitude and the behaviour of the nurses affected the
implementation of the EBP. The knowledge level of the nurses affected and thus the
implementation of the EBP has also been affected. Moreover, it has been seen that the process of
the care should be provided with the nursing standards of NMBA. Thus, the process of the care
should be provided with the EBP as it helps in the process of the knowledge development in this
factor. The factor of the knowledge development of the care process should be developed with
the EBP (Friesen-Storms, Bours, van der Weijden & Beurskens, 2015). Moreover, the process of
the EBP helps the nurses in decision making regarding the care plan of the patient. The factor of
the knowledge development and assessment of the disease would be improved in accordance
with the process of EBP. Thus, it can be stated that the EBP helps in the critical analysis and
proper factorising of the disease care plan. It has been seen that the implementation of the EBP
improved the care improvement and also the improvement of the outcome of the patients in

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significant level. Hence, the EBP should be provided to the patients with priority and it has been
found that this is very much important as well. On this context it can also be stated that the
process of the care can be improved through the implementation of the evidence based care
practice (Orta et al., 2016). On this context it can also be stated that the patient centered care and
the evidence based care practice is integrated and thus the implementation of this process of care
should be considered with highest priority as well. However, the drawbacks of the practice
should be also be considered with priority as the process affects the health man power and
sometimes it cannot be effective as well. On the other hand the process of care should be
effective and helpful for the patient as well. Thus, the effective communication and research on
the disease condition should be implemented as well. However, the process of the research and
the implementation of the knowledge obtained through the research should be implemented and
this is dependent on the skills of the nurses (Aglen, 2016). Hence, it can be stated that the
education and the training program for the health care professionals would be important as well
as it helps in the development of the evidence based care practice knowledge and skill
development as well. Hence, the implementation of this process should be considered for the
betterment of the situation with consideration of proper knowledge of the nurses. EBP on the
other hand also helps in the relationship build up among the patient and the health care
professionals which help in the effective care providence to the patients.
Conclusion
Based on the above discussion it can be concluded that the EBP is one of the most
important factors in the nursing care providence. However, the knowledge and the skills required
for this practice mostly lacking in the nurses. On this context it can be found that the effects of
the care have been improved in terms of the implementation of the evidence based care process.

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Hence, it can be stated that the implementation is required with highest priority. On this context
it can be found that the care procedure has been improved with the implementation of the EBP.
However, it has been seen that it requires high level of infrastructure and also the knowledge of
the nurses. Hence, the policy for the education about this practice should be considered with
highest priority. The factor of the knowledge development of the care process should be
developed with the EBP. It has been seen that the implementation of the EBP improved the care
improvement and also the improvement of the outcome of the patients in significant level.
Hence, it can also be stated that the evidence based care practice implementation will be
effective in the customer satisfaction development.

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