Theory, Research, and Evidence-Based Practice
- State the significance of nursing theory, nursing research, and evidence-based practice
Importance of Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing.
In nursing, EBP means the incorporation of various pieces of evidence from significant scientific research into nursing practices. Therefore, any clinical practices need to have a research-based background explanation. EBP helps nurses to understand the different diagnostic and treatment given to their patients by analyzing the implemented research evidence. EBP application provides better outcomes when it comes to the management of patients. Moreover, it also decreases the increasing demand for resources needed for health care, thus the reduction of expenses in health care organizations.
Significance of nursing research
Research in nursing ensures a learning continuity in nurses. Through research, nurses learn more about their advanced practices, as they research more on better ways to complement and implement their practices, thus increasing patient outcomes. Moreover, nursing research also improves the development of clinical settings in providing optimal patient care.
Significance of nursing theory
Nursing theories helps in the better and improved application of patient care, enhanced working and nursing practices, and advanced communication between patients and nurses during diagnosis and treatment. Finally, nursing theories also provide guidelines in nursing scientific research and even in nursing education.
- Roles of a consumer in nursing research
Nursing research enables learning experiences and critical analysis of consumers of the research in their different professional fields such as medicine and other health care workers. It also ensures the proper application of evidence-based practices in nursing through the sharing of learning experiences and different categories of field research.
- Quality improvement decision making and EBP
Today, different innovations are happening in the phases of life. Therefore, just like any other, health care needs quality improvement to meet the increasing demands of patient outcomes. Thus, decision making in this field involves sharing ideas from different individual and collaborated research evidence-based applications to increase the quality of health care and nursing services. EBP here ensures that any practices developed or implemented for practice have scientific research evidence.
- Importance of critical reading skills for critical appraisal of research.
Critical appraisal is beneficial in reducing other burdens and only allowing for individuals to focus on the relevant research materials and articles. Therefore, the essential skills of reading are adequately needed to focus on the critical appraisal and understanding of the research materials without skipping and omitting critical ideas.