Evidence-Based Practice In Public Health-PHN-652-Topic 1 DQ 1

Evidence-Based Practice In Public Health-PHN-652-Topic 1 DQ 1

How can this Evidence be applied to Support Evidence-based Practice?

To apply the evidence in evidence-based practice, public health nurses have to follow a series of steps to identify and use the best available research. The initial step involves identifying an existing issue in the community that needs to be addressed. Following identification of the issue, the nurse should identify the best available evidence that can be used to address the issue. The identified evidence should be critically appraised to determine the best way to implement it and make modifications where necessary. The nurse should then implement the interventions and evaluate the outcomes to determine their effectiveness (Oliver et al., 2017).

References

Brownson, R. C., Fielding, J. E., & Green, L. W. (2018). Building capacity for evidence-based public health: reconciling the pulls of practice and the push of research. Annual review of public health, 39, 27. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5972383/

Oliver, K. A., de Vocht, F., Money, A., & Everett, M. (2017). Identifying public health policymakers’ sources of information: comparing survey and network analyses. European journal of public health, 27(suppl_2), 118-123. https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/27/suppl_2/118/2907852?login=true