Report: Evidence-Based Practice in Health & Social Care Settings

This report provides a comprehensive overview of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) within the context of Health & Social Care. It begins by defining EBP and highlighting its importance in delivering effective patient care, cost reduction, and improved outcomes. The report delves into the purpose and process of conducting EBP, emphasizing the integration of research evidence, clinical expertise, and patient values. It outlines the necessary skills and qualities for conducting literature reviews, including communication, critical thinking, and time management. The report also includes an analysis of the author's own skills in this area. Furthermore, it explores ethical considerations in research, the use of diverse sources in literature reviews, and the application of communication skills in practice, with a focus on verbal and non-verbal techniques. The report evaluates the outcomes of literature reviews, summarizes current knowledge on communication, and assesses the reliability and validity of the research. It concludes by examining the benefits of EBP for patients and healthcare professionals, proposing a research project on communication in challenging situations, and analyzing the influence of literature reviews on evidence-based practices.

Fundamentals of Evidence-
Based Practice

Cover Content
• Introduction
• Importance of evidence based practices in Health & Social Care
• Purpose and Process of conducting evidence based practice in Health & Social Care
• Skills and qualities which are required to conduct a literature review
• Analysis of own skills and knowledge in being able to conduct literature review
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
• Evidence based practice is an essential concept that refer to purposeful use of the best and
latest evidence in making the most effective and important decisions about patient and health
care. It can be a problem solving approach to the delivery of health care that integrates the
best evidence from studies, research and patient care information with clinician expertise and
patient preferences and values. EBP is the integration of clinical expertise, patient value and
the best research evidence in to the decision making process fro health care. Evidence based
practice is important for applying clinical care which is based on cultural tradition. The aims
and objectives of EBP is provide the high quality and cot effective health services to the
clients so that they can feel satisfaction

Importance of evidence based practice
• In Health and Social care sector, EBP is important because the main objective of it to offer
the most effective care that is available with the motive of improving patient outcomes. The
importance of evidence based practice is as following:
• To provide effective care
• Reduce cost of patient care

Purpose and process of conducting evidence based
practice
• Purpose of evidence based practice- the main objective of EBP is to insure that clinical
recitation is depend on stable information and patients get advantages in term of outputs.
Information based practice seeks to regenerate exercise as usual with recitation target-
hunting by religious result destined investigation, ideally irregular pressurized trials. The
purpose of EBP is to provide good quality and cost effective health services, to increase
satisfaction between patients and help in maximizing the level of confidence in decision
making.

Skills and qualities which are required to conduct
literature review
• Literature review is basically a discussion of scholarly articles relevant to a specific topic of
issues. It can be a survey books, area of research, theory and by so doing which provides a
description, summary and critical evaluation of the work in context to the research issue
being find out and investigate. There are different kind of skills which are required to
conduct a literature review in health and social care sector, some of them are as mentioned
below:
• Communication skills
• Time management skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Problem solving skills

Analysis of own skills and knowledge in being able to
conduct literature review
• Being a researcher to conduct a literature review, I will required good
reading, writing, communication, critical thing and time management
skills. For conducting this process, I have good reading, writing and
time management skills. These all skill are helpful for writing a
effective literature and completing it on time. With the help of reading
skill, I gather effective and required evidence according to the topic and

Evaluation of the skills which are required
to conduct ethical research
• There are different skills like report writing, data collection, planning and scheduling,
critical analysis, time management, critical thinking, problem solving and others are required
to conduct ethical research. These all skills are required to conduct n ethical research because
they create positive impact on practice and provision in health and social care. Researcher
can complete their research in effective and ethical manner with the help of these skills. For
example, if an individual conducting a research regarding a disease like Tuberculosis, then
with the help of report writing skill, the person can prepare a report regarding it. (Ryan,
2016)With the help of data collection skill, the person can gather information in context of
this disease then planning to organise research in ethical manner.

Conduct a literature review using a range of sources
• Introduction- Communication is most important skill and competency to share and transfer
information to one person to another. The topic of the literature review is “communication
skills in practice”. The reason to conduct this process is to identify the influence of
communication skills and techniques on results for service users in a social and health care
service. This recent research is based on NHS which is a social and health care firm.

To understand the effectiveness of communication
in social and healthcare sector
• Each and every patient who comes to hospital has a team of people embroiled in furnishing
care passim their healthful process: form doctors, nurses, culinary teams, family and others.
communication is important in this sector to identify and getting information about the
disease of the patient so that they can providing treatment according to that. There are two
types of communication verbal and non verbal. These both are used by the doctors and
nurses on different patients to gather information to identify the reason or causes.

Tools and techniques which can be used to ensure
effective communication
• There are various tools and techniques like verbal, non verbal, written, use of body language
etc. which are used by doctors and nurses to make effective communication with the patients
and clients. These all tools are effective because with the help of all of these, they can make
communication with their clients and getting information regarding their issues and problems

Explanation of the outcomes of the literature review
• The result of this literature review is that it help in outlining the effectiveness of various
different tools and techniques of communication. This process help in providing information
about the effectiveness of communication in social and health sector. With the help
communication tools, service provider can gather or collect information about the patients.
For example, if an individual who is unable to speak then the service provider can use
written and body language tools and techniques of communication. These all are helpful for
making interaction with them and gathering information regarding their issues.