Assignment task:
Where in the World Is Evidence-Based Practice?
March 21, 2010, was not EBP's date of birth, but it may be the date the approach "grew up" and left home to take on the world.
When the Affordable Care Act was passed, it came with a requirement of empirical evidence. Research on EBP increased significantly. Application of EBP spread to allied health professions, education, healthcare technology, and more. Health organizations began to adopt and promote EBP.
In this Discussion, you will consider this adoption. You will examine healthcare organization websites and analyze to what extent these organizations use EBP. Need Assignment Help?
To Prepare:
Review the Resources and reflect on the definition and goal of EBP.
Choose a professional healthcare organization's website (e.g., a reimbursing body, an accredited body, or a national initiative).
Explore the website to determine where and to what extent EBP is evident.
Post a description of the healthcare organization website you reviewed. Describe where, if at all, EBP appears (e.g., the mission, vision, philosophy, and/or goals of the healthcare organization, or in other locations on the website). Then, explain whether this healthcare organization's work is grounded in EBP and why or why not. Finally, explain whether the information you discovered on the healthcare organization's website has changed your perception of the healthcare organization. Be specific and provide examples.
Required Readings:
- Schmidt, N. A. & Brown, J. M. (2025). Evidence-based practice for nurses: Appraisal and application of research (6th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning
- Chapter 1, "What is Evidence-based practice?" (pp 3-31)
- Chapter 1 will help students understand the importance of EBP, the research process, barriers to the adoption of EBP and strategies to overcome them as well as strategies to transition evidence into nursing practice.
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- Crabtree, E., Brennan, E., Davis, A., & Coyle, A. (2016). Improving patient care through nursing engagement in evidence-based practice. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 13 (2), 172-175.
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- Melnyk, B.M., Fineout-Overhold, E., Stillwell, S.B., & Williamson, K.M. (2010). Evidence-based practice step-by-step: The seven steps of evidence-based practice. American Journal of Nursing, 110 (1), 51-53.
- Melnyk, B. M., Gallagher-Ford, L., Long, L. E., & Fineout-Overholt, E. (2014). The establishment of evidence-based practice competencies for practicing registered nurses and advanced practice nurses in real-world clinical settings: Proficiencies to improve healthcare quality, reliability, patient outcomes, and costs. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 11 (1), 5-15.
- Sikka, R., Morath, J. M., & Leape, L. (2015). The Quadruple Aim: Care, health, cost and meaning in work. BMJ Quality & Safety, 24 , 608-610.
- Walden University Library. (n.d.-a). Databases A-Z: Health & nursing.