Nr 351 Evidence Base Practice Paper

Running head: EVIDENCE BASE PRACTICE 1

Evidence Base Practice

Letha Bly

Chamberlain College of Nursing

NR-351: Transitions in Professional Nursing

July 2016

EVIDENCE BASE PRACTICE 2

Evidence Base Practice

Health Care Changes Rapidly, Over the next few years, the transformation from volume-based to value - based health care will be significant. Nurses use many forms of evidence to guide clinical practice , Including Nursing research. Over the past two decades , nurses have made great progress in increasing

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration substantiated through a series of randomized clinical trials . Evidence - Base Practice has existed for decades , and yet it's routine use in the perioperative setting is lacking . Another reason that practice in the perioperative setting is changing rapidly is the pace at which technologies evolve , and EBP enables perioperative professional to look not at which technologies work . but also at what is most Cost- Effective. Health Care Organization are Joining together to provide excellent patient care using EBP . Evidence-Based Practice skills assist perioperative team members who may have to justify why they practice a certain way by providing the rationale for their care . For example if a surgeon does not want to cover his hair with a bouffant cap and asks the nurse to explain why , the nurse can reply " Because that is what our policy says" or the nurse can explain that there are several research articles demonstrating that hair can harbor bacteria that can be dispersed into the air when shed and that completely covering hair on the head and facial hair protects the patient from exposure to potentially pathogenic microorganism that can cause surgical site infection