Evidence Based Nursing Education Essay

CHAPTER ONE

1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY

The healthcare system is continuously changing, progressing and evolving, with development of new assumptions and theories on diseases, new medications, advance in technology, patient care trends, new and revised procedures, medical breakthroughs and research findings. With the rapidity of change in practice, equipment and technology, and increased complexity of the health care environment, healthcare recipients trusts health care professionals to continually provide optimal, high quality and safe care that is individualized, evidence-based, and patient-centered (Nsemo, John, & Etifit, 2013). According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM, 2004), nurses, are practical caregivers, who are involved in healthcare

Increasingly informed patients demanding rights and service satisfaction, emphasis on evidenced-based nursing practice, and need for better healthcare system management have contributed to the need and quest for further education and pursuit of up-to-date and accurate source of information among the nurses, as it is a professional necessity to maintain clinical competence, be more independent and autonomous in clinical judgment and to safeguard the ever changing health

It is an evidence-based method for disseminating practice information. Happell, 2004 (as cited in Ihudiebube, Odikpo, Ogwu, Chinweuba, & Osuala, 2015) argued that registered nurses must develop greater skills, participate in higher education, and partake in lifelong learning, in order to achieve professionalism in the Nursing profession. Owing to the importance of continuing professional education to nurses, many countries including Nigeria, have implemented mandatory continuing professional development programme and education for Nurses (Adamu, et al,