Assignment: EBP Nursing Cycle Week2

Assignment: EBP Nursing Cycle Week2

Assignment: EBP Nursing Cycle Week2

Week 2 discussion Search for Literature and Levels of Evidence Reflect on your practice, and identify a significant nursing clinical issue or change project that you would like to search for evidence in online sources. Formulate searchable, clinical questions in the PICO(T) format for your nursing clinical issue. Next, review the guidelines for the PICOT Assignment due Week 3. Use your PICOT elements to search for one report of a single, original study that has been published within the last 5 years from the CCN Library that is relevant to your nursing clinical issue. Briefly describe how it is relevant to your nursing clinical issue. Remember to give a complete reference to the study.

What is Evidence Based Practice in Nursing?

Evidence-based practice is “the use of the best scientific evidence, integrated with clinical experience and incorporating patient values and preferences in the practice of professional nursing care (Houser, 2015, p. 12). In your  you can expect to take at least one course that focuses on nursing research and . In your future professional nursing practice, it will be expected that you can locate, read, and apply evidence, and consider that you will also be called upon to participate in research at some point in your career.

5 Steps in the EBP Nursing Cycle

There are five steps in the evidence based practice (EBP) nursing cycle: ask, acquire, appraise, apply, assess (Cleveland Clinic, 2017). As you consider a patient scenario, begin by formulating a clinical question. Ask: What problem or concern do you have for your patient?

EBP Cycle: Acquire Evidence

In step 2, you will begin to search for evidence to answer your question. Perhaps you are seeking evidence to determine if music therapy is as effective in helping to relieve pain for a patient after a minor surgical procedure, as compared to medication? In step 2 you will seek out scholarly literature to explore this evidence. This literature may be found in nursing journals, as well as medical and other health care related ones.

EBP Cycle: Appraise & Apply the Evidence

To appraise the evidence you will need to critically review the articles you have found for validity and applicability (Cleveland Clinic, 2017). If for example your patients are older adults, evidence that examines the effectiveness of music therapy for adolescents may not be applicable for your patient because adolescents and older adults have different responses to pain and different needs for pain control. Also appraise the source of the evidence; think back to your nursing research course to help guide you in completing this appraisal to assure that what you are reading can be trusted. Once you locate applicable evidence you may be ready to apply it, in the form of implementing the findings with your patient.

EBP Cycle: Assess the Evidence

The final step in the process will be to assess whether or not your intervention was effective. In the patient example here you would be assessing the patient to determine if his pain was controlled with the use of music therapy. You might compare the responses of two patients, one who received only music therapy and the other who received music therapy along with pain medication.

Let your search for evidence inspire you to be an even better nurse. Do not think of this as busy work or something you can leave for others to do. Think of evidence-based practice as your commitment to being a patient advocate and health care provider who is contributing to the advancement of the profession of nursing, while respecting a patient’s values and preferences. This is not problem solving, it is an avenue to improve patient outcomes and provide quality care to your patients.

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About the Author

Dr. Nancy Laplante is an Associate Professor of Nursing. She is the Coordinator of the RN/BSN & RN/MSN program options and the Director of Online Programs for the School of Nursing. She earned her MSN degree in 2004 with a focus in community health nursing, and a PhD in Nursing in 2007. Dr. Laplante is a board certified advanced holistic nurse, and serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Holistic Nursing.