Best Practices in Nursing and Midwifery: Evidence-Based Report

This report examines evidence-based practices in nursing and midwifery, emphasizing the significance of patient safety and well-being. It highlights the importance of adhering to the NMBA Codes of Conduct and Standards for Practice, which mandate the use of the best available evidence for safe and quality care. The report focuses on pressure areas, exploring current research and best practices to ensure effective patient care. It delves into the safety implications of evidence-based healthcare, including planning, treatment selection, and care approaches. The report also discusses the current recommended best practices, the Joana Briggs Institute's model, and the use of systematic reviews and clinical guidelines. Research findings, including qualitative and quantitative studies and randomized controlled trials, are evaluated to support the recommendations. The report emphasizes the use of care tools and biomedical literature to provide evidence-based decisions and improve patient outcomes. The report concludes by summarizing the current evidence, its implications for clinical expertise, and the importance of patient values in healthcare.

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Background
Purpose evidence-based practice is an important aspect which makes sure that the needs
and the safety of the patients are well taken of. This aspect is identified also on the codes of
midwives and nurses. The code of regulation states that the nurses should take care of the
patients by providing safety, person-centred, evidence-based practice for the wellbeing of every
individual. This means the NMBA provides the standards of nurses who are registered and also
the midwives. This means that the nurses and midwives should access the best available
evidence which will offer safe and quality for the services. This research is based to find out the
best evidence-based practice on the pressure area in the area of nursing and midwifery.
( Babcock and Thonus, 2018)
Safety implications
 Evidence-based health care practice in the pressure area has been used currently
and they have indicated the best health care in planning, they help in the choice of
treatment and also help to choose the approaches of care.
 The researchers have formulated new methods which can be used to research the
best current health practice that can be used to produce substantial results to the
patients.
 This can be viewed as the umbrella evidence practice that has been used to offer
effectiveness and appropriate health care practices. (Grove, Gray, and Faan,
2019).
The current recommended best practice

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 According to the series of a systematic review the clinical expertise uses their
research to identify the current best evidence.
 The Joana Briggs institute which is an international nursing research branch has
developed a model on evidence based approach.
 This model will help in decision making, this method is effective in treatment of
all diseases identified globally. It strives to change the health care practices that
were practised on the pressure areas of nursing and midwifery sections.
 Moreover, the model incorporates the use of cultural competency in all means. It
has four phases which helps it to improve its work on the health care. the first
phase is evidence generation, evidence transfer and utilisation.
They led in the field of research, the professional expertise, systematic review.
 Best evidence implies that it provides empirical evidence which provides
randomized trials to prove that it can work in
the health sectors (Green 2016).
The evidence (review or research findings) explained
 The current evidence based practise is synthesised by use of guidelines and
systematic review. There three requirements needed in the process which includes
the systematic review, use of an efficient approach and a clinical guideline

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 . The synthesize evidence provides supportive evidence and also emulating the
effective methods of communication. moreover, it includes the educational
programs for the development of the practise.
 When this is implemented the pressure experienced will be evaluated by all
means.
 Currently the method has been together with the evidence based practise without
considering the advantages and the disadvantages.
Research findings
 The research findings included the qualitative and quantitative research where the
data is collected from individuals to know which type of practice is best.
Moreover, the randomized controlled trial is carried out to study on the control
treatment. This means individuals are chosen from a group randomly to carry out
the research. Moreover, the research can be carried out from the laboratory studies
in which the medicines chosen for the evidence-practice are tested to confirm the
results. There are also findings from the earlier treatment which have proven to be
the right treatments. Eventually the systematic are reviews are identified so that
the result of many studies can be proven (Clement, 2015).
The evidence evaluated
 Considering the amount of research on the findings, the use of care tools has been
used to evaluate the best biomedical literature. These provide all the information
about the current evidence-based by making alternatives and also evidence-based
decisions.

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 The new evidence in these proves to provide the quality guidelines based on the
care of the patient and also the nurses wants to access in any field. The current
evidence has proven to be the best by the clinical expertise and also it provides
the patient values needed by the patients.
 This was proven by carrying out the systematic review of the current evidence-
base. It was used because it provides the least biased information which can be
translated into practice and hence offering help on the pressure areas.

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