Evidence-based nursing is the process by which caregivers judiciously, explicitly, and judiciously integrate research findings with clinical experience and patient wishes in the course of planning care activities to obtain evidence on which to base clinical care decisions. It is also an essential part of evidence-based medicine and evidence-based health care.
From the perspective of long-term nursing development, the evidence-based care model is more far-reaching than the model of total quality improvement. Evidence-based information is gathered through authoritative sources to find the best nursing behavior, and then a critical eye is used to evaluate whether it is achieving the best results or whether further research is needed. This cycle continues to rise to the point of continuous improvement in the quality of care.
The Relevance of Evidence-Based Nursing:
Nursing practice is characterized by a high degree of variability, and nurses often lack a reliable empirical basis for making clinical decisions. For example, what sterilization method to choose, what time of day is most appropriate for specimen collection, how to enhance patient compliance, how to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing behaviors, and how to obtain the greatest support from the patient's family.
Nursing administrators also often find it difficult to find true "standards" when developing nursing routines. There is a discrepancy between nursing theory and nursing practice.