Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practice
Assignment
This week you will be working on an evaluation plan that will be attached to your EBP in next week. Submit your Evaluation Plan to the DB –listed as 1-2-3…
Lessons
Evaluation of EBP
Evaluation of EBP has many facets— evaluating science, evaluating internally generated data, evaluating outcomes, evaluating the implementation of evidence— but all the aspects are aimed toward the accomplishment of the central goal of EBP— quality patient outcomes. In healthcare, we must know whether or not we are being successful in meeting this objective. Preparing nurses to engage in outcome evaluation and use data to improve patient care will move us one step forward toward this accomplishment.
Key Concepts in Evaluation
Health care decision making must be data-driven.
Data must be accessible and user-friendly to point of service providers.
Outcome evaluation must be interdisciplinary.
Outcome evaluation must be part of health care providers’ curricula.
Health care education must engage in evaluating learners’ integration of EBP.
Barriers to EBP
Clinical Inquiry must be cultivated in the work environment and in the presence of uncertainty.
Uncertainty is the inability to predict what an experience will mean or what outcome will occur. In the face of uncertainty and clinical inquiry clinicians must be able to find the right information at the right time—thus setting up specific barriers to EBP.
Access tends to be the biggest barrier.
Access to computers on the unit, access to electronic resources and information and access to time to search for the best evidence to answer our questions.
Additional barriers include nurses’ comfort level in searching the library and search technology and skills in developing a strong researchable question.
What other barriers can you think of?
