The utilization of evidence-based practice in nursing is a relatively new phenomenon. Although the medical profession has worked toward evidence-based medicine for nearly two decades, the nursing profession has executed evidence-based practice only since the late 1990s (Jennings & Loan, 2001). The primary goal of evidence-based practice is to improve decision making about patient interventions ...

Changing Practice and the Bedside Nurse: The EvidenceBased Practice Perspective Florence Nightingale, an early user of evidence-based data, asked important clinical questions and changed practices that had contributed to high mortality rates. During the Crimean War, she collected data on infection rates, changed practices, and substantially decreased mortality rates. In the twenty-first century...

ONF, 41(2), 207–208. doi:10.1188/14.ONF.207-208 A significant increase in nursing research is being conducted as the nursing profession shifts from “ritual” clinical decisions to practice based on research evidence. Evidencebased practice is now an accepted, essential foundation for high-quality patient care. Initially, best practice was based on a few randomized, controlled trials that reflect...

Many barriers inhibit nurses from using evidence to guide their practice. The authors describe the development of a Nursing Research Internship Program designed to overcome barriers to evidencebased practice and provide staff nurses with an opportunity for professional growth. Evaluation of the program indicates it has increased staff nurses’ use of the literature to identify and solve clinical...

As the largest sector of the health professions in the United States with more than three million registered nurses, the world needs to hear our voices in forging a new vision in nursing education and nursing practice. Nursing education and practice is constantly evolving and Nursing 2013 is at the cutting edge of nursing. The purpose of this paper is to integrate Ethics, Legal and Sociocultura...

619 Evidence-based practice is a conscious approach to using evidence for clinical decision making and care of patients with the goal of improving patient outcomes (Eaton & Tipton, 2009). The current concept of “best” evidence integrates several forms of knowledge: research, practice, patient and caregiver perspective, and knowledge internal to the context of the practice, such as audit or perf...

In this department, Dr Newhouse highlights hot topics in nursing outcomes, research, and evidencebased practice relevant to the nurse administrator. The goal is to discuss the practical implications for nurse leaders in diverse healthcare settings. Content includes evidence-based projects and decision making, locating measurement tools for quality improvement and safety projects, using outcome ...

This article reconsiders the fundamental patterns of knowing in nursing in light of the challenge of narrow empirics in the form of evidence-based practice. Objections to the dominance of evidence-based practice are reviewed, and the reasons for it are examined. It is argued that it is partially the result of weaknesses in the alternative patterns of ethical, personal, and esthetic knowing, the...

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During the brief time that we have been engaged in developing Evidence-Based Nursing we have been fascinated by the reactions of friends, professional colleagues, and the media. The overwhelming majority of responses to the concepts of evidence-based nursing and the creation of this journal have been positive. But there have also been misgivings, sometimes generated by misunderstandings. This e...