Evidence-based practice has been highlighted as one of the important aspects in enhancing healthcare delivery by providing scientific proven solutions. These solutions have several advantages to the healthcare system that faces a wide range of problems (Mathieson, Grande, & Luker, 2019). These include strategies to improve healthcare delivery, strategies to minimize the cost of care, and more enhanced ways of achieving healthcare goals.
However, healthcare facilities face certain challenges in effectively integrating evidence-based nursing practice (Mathieson, Grande, & Luker, 2019). One main issue for a healthcare organization in addressing a solution to evidence-based nursing practice is addressing patient’s beliefs and perspectives that may affect a successful implementation of healthcare interventions. Patients come from different backgrounds and are influenced by varying factors in their belief systems, culture, or perspectives (Mathieson, Grande, & Luker, 2019).
This means that nurse leaders who are responsible for overseeing nursing research as well as the implementation of EBP should evaluate the interventions to make sure that they accommodate the varying patients’ beliefs (Curtis, Fry, Shaban, & Considine, 2017). The first step in addressing and resolving this issue is adopting policies that allow nurses and patients to collaborate in developing new interventions. Policy makers should understand and factor the role of patients’ preference as well as the expertise of the nurse in EBP models which will fix any loopholes in the practice (Curtis et al., 2017). Client involvement in the design and critique of EBP models can be infused to ensure that client satisfaction is guaranteed in each of the components of the models. Health care researchers should aim at research that is beneficial to both the practitioners and clients, as this will enhance healthcare delivery as well as patient outcomes (Curtis et al., 2017).
References
- Curtis, K., Fry, M., Shaban, R. Z., & Considine, J. (2017). Translating research findings to clinical nursing practice. Journal of clinical nursing, 26(5-6), 862–872. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13586
- Mathieson, A., Grande, G., & Luker, K. (2019). Strategies, facilitators and barriers to implementation of evidence-based practice in community nursing: a systematic mixed-studies review and qualitative synthesis. Primary health care research & development, 20, e6. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1463423618000488
