NRS 493  Topic 2 DQ 2 DQ What is the main issue for your organization in addressing a solution to evidence-based nursing practice?

NRS 493  Topic 2 DQ 2 DQ What is the main issue for your organization in addressing a solution to evidence-based nursing practice?

The main issue for my organization in addressing a solution to evidence-based nursing practice is nurses’ reluctance to change (Mahmoud & Abdelrasol, 2019). In the hospital where I worked, the hospital developed new policies of care based on the new findings by researchers in the healthcare delivery system. I have the privilege to precept new hires on my unit and always I notice differences in how these new hires are trained by other nurses, not going by the EBP protocol provided by the hospital. This can be solved by nurse managers and nurse educators continuously educating nurses on the new EBP protocols and evaluating their effectiveness. In addition, nurses can be each other’s keepers by correcting each other respectfully when patient care is not provided based on the hospital protocol.

The main issue for my organization in addressing a solution to evidence-based nursing practice is the lack of nurses within the hospital to carry out evidence-based practice because qualitative care is lost because there isn’t enough nurses to carry out this task. Evidence based practice is extremely open and supportive of change which is important because of the constantly revolving nature of healthcare and disease. It can be defined as the application of research and new knowledge into daily patient care (Wilson & Austria, 2021). This is also the acceptance of abandoning old models and practices to better fit the general population and patients of diverse backgrounds who don’t fit into the mold of the “average patient.” Evidence based practice is the collaboration of researched evidenced, clinical experience, and preferences of the patients in order to provide treatment so that patient outcomes would improve patient outcomes (“Why is evidence-based practice in nursing so important?,” 2018). Evidence based practice is incorporated everyday into the nursing field in a process similar to the scientific method.

This starts with the nurses formulating a question to find a solution to a problem, gathering data and evidence about the patient’s condition, medical and family history, analyzing the evidence to find a correlation or link to different disease and identify a pattern,