Translating Evidence into Clinical Practice
Choose one evidence-based practice that you see yourself using as a provider in your clinical practice and discuss how it meets the listed benefits.
(Infection control practices)
Why should we, as healthcare providers, use evidence-based practice?
Evidence-based practice benefits:
- Leads to highest quality care and patient outcomes
- Reduces health care costs
- Reduces geographic variations in the delivery of care
- Increases healthcare provider empowerment and role satisfaction
- Reduces healthcare provider turnover rate
- Increases reimbursement from 3rd party payers
- Reduces complications and payment denials
- Meets the expectation of an informed public
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Evidence Based Practice
Evidence based practice (EBP) continues to form the hallmark of most of the nursing research and training in the current industry. One example of an EBP may involve an emergency scenario where the nurse does not understand what option to take with regards to handling the patient. For instance, patients with COPD have been considered to be vulnerable due to congestion yet providing oxygen to COPD patients has also been associated with problems such as hypercarbia, acidosis and sometimes death.
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