Exploring Scientific Knowledge and Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing

This report examines the role of scientific knowledge and evidence-based practice (EBP) in Australian nursing. It explores how nurses acquire knowledge from various sources, including institutions, social media, and reflection on practice, emphasizing the importance of EBP in providing quality patient care. The report highlights the significance of EBP in making informed decisions based on the latest evidence, improving patient outcomes, and adapting to technological advancements in healthcare. It discusses the three main components of EBP: external evidence, internal evidence, and patient preferences. The report concludes that institutions and reflection on practice are key sources for developing nurses' knowledge and implementing EBP, ultimately enhancing patient care and contributing to improved health outcomes. The document emphasizes the importance of continuous learning and the application of scientific principles in nursing practice.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
In rapidly expanding the world, people are not aware for their health and well being,
Australian government has made changes in its policies in order to provide better care services to
the patients so that their well being can be improved. Present report is based on the Australian
nurses and their scientific cognition. Current assignment will discuss the sources of nursing
knowledge that can help in improving knowledge of the nurses. EBP will be discussed in this
study in order to explore the ways of developing the knowledge.
MAIN BODY
Nowadays many technologies come in the course of work. Science are going to make
more effective. They invent day by day more powerful products and fulfill the wants & needs of
the societies (Townsend, 2014). Health is the first priority of the persons and wants to be healthy
all the time. They are more focused and want to be healthy. In present scenario nursing staff
deliver a high-quality patient care. Nurse staffing plays an essential role in patients care. They
get knowledge from various institutes, also they get knowledge from social media. They provide
services with safety and protection. We can elaborate nursing like they are those critical factor
who determine the quality of care and nature of outcome of the patient. At present scenario
hospital uses more effective and efficient machine. Nowadays patient's whole body is scanned
and determines the problems that affect them (Potter and et.al, 2016). At present scenario laser
operations are one of the big successes. Because of this, without any cut the patient body they
can operate (Malik, McKenna and Plummer, 2015). However traditional knowledge is also plays
a crucial role. Many old doctors who were work from many years from them patient want to go,
because from the symptoms of patients they get the exact point which harm to the patient. Thus,
we can say that the there are many critical situations in between experience and new inventions.
Nursing department were not effective & efficient as compare to present scenario (Fleiszer and
et.al., 2015). Nowadays nursing staff are more valuable. They have lots of knowledge about the
health care. They maintain cleanses, aware about patience, aware about the environmental
climate. Sometimes nurse staff acts like as small doctors.
For developing the knowledge of Australian nursing medical department plays crucial
role. They provide vast knowledge to them, they research about the current medical condition of
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society and after them provide them knowledge. Medical departments provide them every type
of knowledge whether it is theoretical and practical. That is why, nurse staff have good
knowledge and they perform more efficiently and effectively in health care (Williams and
Hopper, 2015). They provide them knowledge about all new technologies like how to operate
and how to deal with this equipment. For example doctors get training from the experts, they
enhanced their knowledge about the latest machinery of x-ray and others. By this way they treat
the patients well. In the training sessions they get proper guidance from senior invigilators and
doctors to make them effective and efficient. This will help the patient to improve their health
soon and get quality care services from the medical professionals. In medical environment they
learn lot off. The ultimate benefit of all these work is goes directly to the patients (Stokke and
et.al, 2014). Nursing staff also gets knowledge from reflection of practice. The knowledge from
reflection of practice states that to getting knowledge from experience. Like get some bad
memories from something bad happens in past. As per this nursing staff achieves lots of
knowledge and uses to other patients, and get early benefited to them (Jacob, McKenna and
D'amore, 2015). As per their experiences they have knowledge about how they give treatment to
patient and provides relief them as soon as possible (Canada, 2016). For example one Australian
nurse have seen that due to the careless of senior doctors, patient did not get proper treatment.
One patient was suffering from the flu and doctors were giving medicine to him of lung disease.
Medical professional has not examined the person well and as person was taking wrong medicine
he got died soon. In the postmortem it was notices that he was taking wrong medicine that is why
he meet with the accident. It was completely mistaken of senior doctor, from the experience
Australian nurse got that they have to check the patients completely and after that they need to
provide them treatment.
Nursing knowledge is very complex term that is related with the profession of medical. It
is very improvement for the health and social care industry that medical professional have good
knowledge and they serve better to the patients (Hockenberry and Wilson, 2014). Care to users is
the responsibility of nurses but it can only possible if the practitioner have good information and
knowledge about the diseases. Good knowledge defines the accountability of the persons and
individual became able to serve the patients well (Kennedy and et.al, 2014).
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It is found that if the Australian nurses have good knowledge then they can serve better
services to the uses and can help in improving their health status. EBP is the scientific term
which means evidence based practice (Townsend, 2014). It explains that care of patients needs to
be on the bases of the latest evidence. It is required that nurses get knowledge about the
principals at the time of their study. EBP is the approach that helps in making quality decision
and providing good care on the bases of medical condition of the patients (Potter and et.al,
2016). EBP implements such methods that has been declared or proved as good and appraised by
others in the scientific research (Locks and et.al, 2015). Main aim of using this approach in the
care home is that to improve health condition of the users and provide them treatment at lower
cost so that they can afford the treatment. It is beneficial for both health care system and patients
as well. The evidence in the HSC used by the hospitals or medical professionals to make changes
in their current practices so that they can take good clinical decisions and can improve quality of
care in the hospitals (LoBiondo-Wood. and Haber, 2014). Before implementing the EBP
approach depends upon the knowledge of medical professionals and nurses, preference of the
users and evidence which are collected by the multiple studies. These all aspects need to be
collaborated and utilize by the medical persons in order to find out the proper solution of the
medical problems of patients. It is the part of modern clinical training and modern nursing
education (Fleiszer and et.al., 2015).
It involves three main components in order to gain optimistic outcome in the medical
industry. External evidence can be reviews, randomized control trials, guidelines through this
nurses can make necessary changes in their decisions a and can provide quality care to the
patients in the hospitals (Fleiszer and et.al., 2015). There are many internal evidences related to
the same such as health care institutions, management initiatives, clinical expertise etc. In
addition to this third main component are patient preferences and values. EBP is the combination
of clinical expertise and research in the health care. With the help of this medical professionals
and nurses can address the health issues and can evaluate them in order to provide quality care to
the patients (Weng and et.al, 2013).
As many sources have been identified in the study, from the discussion it can be said that
institution is the major source that can help in the evidence based practice for the nurses. In the
clinic and hospitals nurses can get guidance from the senior medical professionals. There are
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many experienced persons those who are working in the field since longer duration (Spurlock
and Wonder, 2015). By this way they can give good knowledge to the nurses that can help them
in improving their knowledge and by this way they will deliver quality care to the patients. At
the time of providing the evidence based care for that institution is very important sources. Apart
from this when medical professional work in the hospitals then they have to ensure that whether
they are giving correct treatment to patients or not, that is only possible by institution knowledge.
By this way seniors will be able to guide them well thus, nurses will defiantly provide good
services to users that would enhance their knowledge as well (Stokke and et.al, 2014).
In addition to this, knowledge from reflection on practice is another great source that can
help to nurse in implementing EBP approach it their working life. There are many accidents that
take place in the real life of the person and individual get experience through this. It is the way
that can support in improving knowledge of the person and individual learn from the mistakes
and never repeat the mistakes again (Doran and et.al, 2014). Self experience give good learning
and help in identifying loop fall by this way individual can work to improve its weakness. For
example if any medical professional has not given good care to the users and due to this person
has died then it would be real life experience (Kalb and et.al, 2015). There are many hospitals
where practitioner gives medicines to the patients without examining them it is the great example
because die to this health of the person get badly affected. This experience cannot be forget by
the persons and it will remember the persons whole life (Williams and Hopper, 2015). If such
mistake is done by the nurses in the care home then they will learn from their mistakes and will
examine the patients completely before giving them any medical treatment so that users can get
good care by the hospital staff. Both these sources can improve knowledge and experience of the
nurses (Wu and et.al, 2015). By this way people will get good care from the nurse in the
hospitals (Canada, 2016).
CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that health and social care is the field which
actively work for improving the health of the population. Nurses play significant in improving
well being of the users. They provide them quality care and give them medical suggestions so
that people be healthy all the time. For that it is necessary that nurses have good knowledge and
experience about the subject matter. It is analyzed that nurses can develop their knowledge from
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self learning and from their experience. It is the great way that can support them in identifying
their errors and never repeating mistakes again. Report has discussed about the EBP, from the
discussion it can be articulated that experience can not be forget by the person so if nurses have
faced some bad experience then it becomes memory for them and they take care for this always
so that such type of mistake they do not repeat. Reflection from real life, institution is two
biggest sources that can help in improving the knowledge of the persons. Evidence based
practice is the approach that believes on the evidence so that nurses get scientific knowledge and
provide quality care to the patients.
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