Evidence-based Nursing in Nursing Science

Nursing implementation science: how evidence-based nursing requires evidence-based implementation.

PURPOSE Evidence is not always used in practice, and many examples of problematic implementation of research into practice exist. The aim of this paper is to provide an introduction and overview of current developments in implementation science and to apply these to nursing. METHODS We discuss a framework for implementation, describe common implementation determinants, and provide a rationale...

Concept of evidence based nursing and nursing education

Introduction: Contemporary advances in technology and sciences parallel to changeable patients' status make it essential to nurses to combine their skills and knowledge with evidences in order to identify patients' problems, care planning, implementation and evaluation through interaction with other health team members. Nurses must be able to make clinical decisions independently which is possi...

Rogerian science-based nursing theories.

In this column, the author provides a general overview of selected theories derived from Rogerian nursing science. After a brief discussion of the Rogerian perspective, she highlights representative theories. She suggests that ongoing development of proposed theories has been relatively slow for two main reasons. First, scholars still use the 1970 book as a major reference. Unfortunately, despi...

Evidence-based nursing: advancing the art and science of nursing practice.

Qualitative evidence in evidence-based (nursing) practice

In this paper I will show the profound influence the evidence-based practice movement has on the use of qualitative research findings in health care, and in nursing in particular. I will argue that it has become difficult if not impossible to base practice on qualitative research within this way of thinking knowledge. Hence the qualitative research community needs to develop methods that will m...