Evidence Based Practice
What does EBP stand for?
Evidence Based Practice
What is the 4 components of Nursing Theory?
Person, Environment, Health, Nursing
Who is responsible for quality care?
Everyone
Should learning be continuous or stagnant?
Continuous
True or False? Collaboration between nurse educators, researchers and clinicians is unimportant and should be avoided at all costs.
False. Collaboration is paramount due to the different experiences each bring to the table.
EBP can be traced back to who?
Florrence Nightingale
Serves as a guide for assessment, problem identification, and choosing nursing interventions
Who set the standards for Quality of Practice?
ANA (American Nurses Association)
What poses most as an issue in getting the best possible client outcomes? Time Constraints or having to work with other departments?
Time constraints pose the biggest issue in getting best outcomes. Having to work with other departments produces better outcomes as everyone is pursuing those outcomes.
True or False? Nursing research and EBP are unrelated.
False. Nursing research leads to EBP
Name one challenge we face as a care team regarding Evidence Based Practice?
Time constraints, limited training of staff, organizational pushback with resistance to changing the current model
What is the Nursing Theory?
The foundation of the Nursing Practice
What is the QSEN?
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
Who is more likely to recognize an issue in the quality of patient care? The nurse or the doctor?
The nurse as they are more involved daily with bedside patient care
True or False? Evidence Based Practice leads to better clinical decisions and outcomes.
True. EBP leads to better overall clinical decisions and outcomes in the healthcare setting.
Magnet hospitals and other accrediting bodies require what?
Evidence Based Nursing Practice
Virginia Henderson, Hildegard Peplau, Patricia Benner, Madeleine Leininger
What is Quality?
The degree to which nursing services increase the likelihood of desirable outcomes and are consistent with evolving nursing knowledge
Which is more important when providing care? Implementing the patients values and preferences or getting results asap?
True or False? EBP negates the need for critical thinking.
False. EBP leads to better patient outcomes but does not replace the need for critical thinking skills.
Name the 3 pillars of ABP?
Best available evidence, Clinical expertise, Patient values and preferences
What is the Framework tool used in Nursing theory?
PICOT
What is Quality Improvement?
The combined and unceasing efforts of everyone to make changes that will lead to optimal client outcomes
The QSEN
True or False? EBP is now a standard of care in the healthcare setting.
True. EBP is no longer just something "nice to have" but the standard of care.