Evidence-based Practice Project
Healthcare provision is evidence-based, and it works grounded to scientific principles and research findings. Evidence-based practice (EBP) approach in nursing practice aims to be a guide in decision making at all levels right from the patient level all through the healthcare provision system. EBP aims to ensure that healthcare procedures in place are effective inpatient care and that they give desired patient outcomes.
EBP results are disseminated once they are obtained; this means that the results are distributed to target audiences such as the public health practitioners and those in clinical practice, in this case, the nurses. Dissemination helps increase and promote the spread of knowledge regarding the EBP interventions that were established from the research. Once the knowledge is widespread, this will then help significantly in embracing the new responses in practice to achieve better patient outcomes because now mistakes that were done earlier have been assessed. New ways of getting around the procedures for better results have been established.
The internal method to use is the dissemination of the EBP results to the hospital board. Hospital board functions to serve as a governing body in the hospital; it is responsible for overseeing the day to day activities at the hospital to ensure that the hospital provides quality health care services. The board consists of employees of the hospital who include doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other practitioners who work to provide healthcare services. The EBP result presentation is done on a face to face method to ensure that the information passed across is well understood by all employees, and for those with questions regarding the results, they can get answers. With excellent understanding, the application of the EBP will be more comfortable at all levels, which is significant in patient care success.
The external method for use in disseminating the EBP results is presenting it to a nursing professional organization such as the American Nurses Association. The organization plays a significant role in facilitating dissemination to a broader audience that is involved in patient care. The results are presented on face to face basis as it was to the hospital board so that there is an interactive session after the presentation to ensure that consultations and discussion that are vital in seeing that the results are implemented are held.
Presentation of the EBP results to the hospital board and the nursing professional organizations is essential. After the results are presented, the interactions afterward play a significant role in promoting the sharing of knowledge and information amongst the nurses, and this helps with decision making among the nurses to see that better patient outcomes are attained. Now that the two groups have access to the results, the members can analyze the results and provide feedback in terms of criticism, and this is crucial because it will call for changes to the results before they are implemented.
Communication of the EBP results to the internal and external audiences vary. When presenting internally to the hospital board, which consists mainly of fellow employees, the presenter becomes less formal and more interactive because they are addressing colleagues though professionalism is still maintained. On the contrary, when presenting externally to the nursing professional organization, the presenter is more formal.
EBP, when implemented, is essential to assess whether the changes are in any way contributing to a significant shift in patient care and to the nursing organization as intended. The intended changes by the EBP include; enhancing treatment outcomes in patients, improving the quality of healthcare the patients receive, and also as much as quality services are provided. The cost of the services must be taken into consideration to ensure that patients can still afford health care services.
With knowledge of what the EBP should help accomplish these assessments to ensure it is working and if it has are required. The evaluation works to see that the EBP implementation was a success, and therefore an evaluation technique that is capable of measuring the changes named above is sort. For example, if an EBP aimed at implementing pre-warming procedures in the hospital to reduce cases of hypothermia in surgical patients to establish if the EBP project has accomplished this, an evaluation plan is described. The evaluation plan states clearly what the expected outcome should be in case the project was a success and also give a range within which any variation is acceptable.
One method to use in the evaluation of the effectiveness of an EBP is summative evaluation. Summative assessment is a systematic way of collecting data from the patients on how the implemented intervention affected them to tell the outcome of the implementation. Collected data is then analyzed against the projected outcome to give a comparison of ideally expected results after implementation and what has been achieved so far. The method will come in handy to help gauge the effectiveness of the EBP, its success, and give an overview of how it has impacted the cost of healthcare provision in the organizations involved.