Barriers to Evidence Based Nursing Practice - Assignment Example

Barriers to Evidence Based Nursing Practice Evidence Based Nursing Practice is an approach to health care by the health professionals/ medics who apply the best possible evidence depending on the situations at hand (i.e. based the patient’s situational evidence, characteristics, and preferences’ evidence) to come up with and recommend appropriate clinical decisions for any individual patients under their care. This practice in nursing (Evidence Based Nursing Practice) conforms to the fact that the process of conducting health care is always individualized and on continuous changes involving uncertainties and probabilities (McKibbon K.A. (1998).

Interviews were used to conduct this research on a nurse leader and a bedside nurse with a major view of inquiring their perspective on the barriers to the application of evidence-based nursing practices within their clinical settings. Based on quantitative study analysis and design, the barriers identified were inadequate resources, minimal time allocation for the study, inconsistencies, restricted authorities in some situations, limited support in conducting the research, a future two tier nursing practice, lack of work motivation, adaptation culture, institutional resistance to change, and poor responsibility in adopting the evidence-based nursing.

These findings were found to be consistent when compared to other related research works (Hannes K. et al, (2007). With a critical look on these barriers, it stood out that one major action of developing clear objective and targeted strategies needed to be taken to solve them all.At our clinical level, we would recommend the development of a problem tree based on the purposeful sampling of nurses in different sections of the clinic to explore the identified barriers, and to orientate possible changes in the management processes of the clinic.

This would ensure that both managerial and individual limitations/ barriers are eliminated (Gerrish K., 2007). ReferencesMcKibbon K.A. (1998). Evidence Based Practice. Bull Med Library Assoc. 1998 Jul; 86(3):396-401.Hannes K., Vandersmissen J., De Blaeser L., Peeters G., Goedhuys J., Aertgeerts B. (2007). Barriers to evidence-based nursing: a focus group study. J Adv Nurse. 2007 Oct; 60(2):162-71. Pub Med PMID: 17877563.Gerrish K., Ashworth P., Lacey A., Bailey J., Cooke J., Kendall S., McNeilly E. (2007). Factors influencing the development of evidence-based practice: a research tool.

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