EBP Reflection
How Has This Course Helped You Grow Personally and Professionally?
I have improved my writing, reading, and writing skills that are essential in preparing presentations and writing of EBP (Evidence-Based Practice) papers. Besides, I can effectively use computers and emerging technologies such as the internet and web browsers to conduct quantitative research and analysis. Notably, this course has riveted my nursing profession by enabling me to exercise ways of performing systematic reviews, best practice, and clinical practice guidelines that are integral in patient care as well as improved outcomes and quality of life.
What Did You Expect from This Course?
From the course, I expected to learn various EBP steps that are essential in locating, evaluating, and applying the information to solve real-life problems in healthcare facilities. Besides, I expected to gain skills on how to engage patients participate in a proactive role during care delivery. Dang and Dearholt (2017) state that EBP steps include coming up with a clinical question to address a problem, gathering and analyzing best evidence, applying the evidence as well as assessing the outcome. These were my significant expectations from the course as I wanted to perform assessments and make clinical decisions based on robust and inductive arguments.
How Did the Course Meet or Not Meet Your Expectations?
The course met my expectations by gaining quantitative analytical skills such as number manipulation to evaluate and analyze data. I can articulate, visualize, and analyze complex problems to arrive at Best clinical decisions that aim to provide better and quality healthcare services. Finally, the course met my expectations from the course questions that helped me improve my thinking skills such that I am now able to use ethical thinking practices and apply them in solving society issues.
What Will You Take Away with You in Terms of Conducting EBP Reviews and Preparing A Group Project and An EBP Paper?
Preparation of presentations and writing of EBP papers requires identifying the problem to solve first, and solving the identified problem will require one to gather the best evidence first before applying it in clinical practice. Principally, after using the best evidence in clinical practice, it is necessary to conduct an assessment that verifies the results. In short, to prepare group projects or EBP papers, quantitative analytical skills are essential as they help to evaluate and analyze numerical data.
Do You Feel That You Have Strengthened Your Skills in Preparing A Presentation and Or Writing an EBP Paper? If So, How? If Not, How Could the Course Have Better Met Your Needs?
I strongly feel that I have strengthened my skills in preparing a presentation and writing an EBP paper. I have gained knowledge of various methods and formulae of evaluating and analyzing numerical data. Besides, I can identify the problem and gather information to address the issue. Finally, I can use emerging technologies such as browsers and the internet to perform EBP research, and typing of data and information found.
References
Dang, D., & Dearholt, S. L. (2017). Johns Hopkins nursing evidence-based practice: Model and guidelines. Sigma Theta Tau. https://bit.ly/2RQzc73