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Evidence-Based Practices to Guide Clinical Practices

Marilaura Mieres

Miami Regional University

Dr.Mercedes

03/28/2021

Evidence-Based Practices to Guide Clinical Practices

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Introduction

Evidence best practices is an approach that translates excellent scientific research

evidence to enhanced practical decisions aiming at improving health. EBP involves using

research findings obtained from systematic data collection that is achieved through observations

and analyzed experiments. The connection of research, theory, and EBP are interlinked in that

the delivery of one results in another aspect’s discovery. Through research findings, a theory is

discovered, and through various experiments and observations, evidence-based practices are

identified.

Interrelationship Between the Theory, Research, and EBP.

According to Cannon & Boswell (2016), health professionals require standards to analyze

behavioral treatments in the behavioral sciences. Through complete incorporation and

implementation processes, health professionals must value EBP processes, health theories, and

research. Through experience, health practitioners must learn to integrate research results to

determine the best treatment plans suitable for patients. Through this research results,

experiments, and evidence, health practitioners with academicians ally to discover a theory. The

treatments are offered according to patients’ values, interests, and preferences (Cannon &

Boswell 2016). The values increase practitioners’ skills and knowledge to analyze research

outcomes effectively. Nurses are expected to think critically after being taught and encouraged,

which corresponds with evidence-based practices. Nurses’ critical thinking skills require a

foundation on which proven research and tested data can be based. The proven research,

evidence-based practices, and a good foundation all connect to form a theory that research can

rely on and nurses can use to prove their practices.

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Additionally, health professionals at all levels must identify challenges and arising

questions to address patients’ needs and offer quality practices to discover appropriate

interventions suitable for every challenge. Health professionals are directly involved in research

projects that allow them to understand the best methods to publish for evidence-based practices.

Through different researches and publications, health professionals like advanced practice nurses

use research to solve health dilemmas. Nurses find platforms centered on tested clarifications

through nursing practices and methodical examinations from research to build a base for

procedures and care.

Moreover, research is a scientific procedure that anticipates outcomes through the use of

fundamental expertise. Research processes enhance the capacity of discipline through clarity and

visualized aspects. The discipline’s ability to put into practice required evidence relates to

anticipation, transparency, and guidance that controls and governs the findings. The discipline’s

capacity ensures the quality of research is achieved. Once the analysis is completed, the

evidence-based practices can be realized. The realization of the EBP results in discovering a

theory based on practices, evidence, foundation, and research.

Furthermore, research leads to the discovery of theories that have become a growing

expectation in healthcare provision. The research results are used to determine and distinguish

appropriate quality care to offer patients, which translates to forming a constant feature that can

be used to base patient’s characters like behavioral theory.

Research Questions, Sampling and Sampling Size, Research Designs, Hypothesis, Data

Collection Methods, And Research Findings from Each Study

From Cannon & Boswell (2016) journal, it is evident that qualitative and quantitative

research designs are used in scenarios where nurses use observation and personal experience

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with patients to determine the best treatment to use on a patient. Whereas quantitative research

designs are used by health professionals when researching a health product or treatments. The

statistical data collected is evaluated through experiments to weigh information with the highest

loads. The collected data with high loads are then taken for further piloting and analysis to

determine the information’s authenticity. The data is used to advocate for a clinical method.

On the other hand, research questions from Cannon & Boswell (2016) evaluate patients’

health literacy and how evidence-based practices help clinical practices and patients. Research

questions focus on identifying and analyzing the effectiveness and clarity of theories, research,

and evidence-based practices with their relationship to improving healthcare delivery services to

patients. According to mick (2017), health professionals must identify questions and analyze

challenges facing patients to help recognize appropriate interventions to use for quality practices.

Additionally, health professionals engaging in the invention of theories and advanced

knowledge for health policy changes use data collection methods like surveys, observations,

planned interviews, and focus groups. The data collection methods and research findings from

Cannon & Boswell (2016) determine health professionals’ critical thinking processes to provide

the right settings for primary care. Through research findings, nurses’ knowledge and skills are

improved and enhanced through positive attitudes towards providing value on evidence-based

practices to improve quality care and increase patient outcomes.

Research methods use techniques and methodical examinations to provide a platform to

base clinical practice. The research findings from the study of Cannon & Boswell (2016) indicate

that conclusions from research studies are used to solve clinical dilemmas that form the basis of

quality research. The anticipation, clarity, and guidance required in scientific processes are put

into practice through sound evidence from research findings.

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Moreover, health professionals’ satisfactory evidence while conducting their research

adds up to hypothesis testing. Mick (2017) indicates that the evidence achieved by health

professionals is fueled into practice after tests and experiments have been designed. The

evidence is tested to understand the variability and the deepness of the data collected. Through

different observations and conclusions, a research finding is invented.

Furthermore, the steps in the clinical study involve having an appropriate setting for

research. The study to be conducted requires the health professional and researchers to sample

several patients or individuals to ask research questions related to the sample size. Once the

sampling process is achieved, the data collection methods are used to accomplish the research

findings. The findings are then evaluated to determine the effectiveness of the samples.

According to Mick (2017), the research aims to generalize research goals from a sample

and relate it to larger populations. The sampling process is accomplished through statistical

methods centered on the perspectives of a theory. A sample is a small proportion of a population

that is representative of a larger population. Therefore, researchers use sampling methods free

from errors to determine the study and purpose of the research.

Goals, Health Outcomes, And Implementation Strategies in The Healthcare Setting (EBP)

Training and support strategies, according to Mathieson et al. (2019), results in

successful adoption. Engaging nurses in training before implementing an innovation boost

nurse’s confidence to use the innovation skills acquired through training. Offering practical

training on how to use a particular treatment or how to handle a scenario suggests that training

plays a significant role in successful adoption. Support strategies involve receiving support from

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staff members, having enough and safe space for nurses to share their experiences, physical

contact with researchers, and management support through resource allocation.

According to Mathieson et al. (2019), Roles’ allocation enhances nurses’ ability to

monitor implementation processes. The roles allocation process involves appointing nurses into

leadership positions, giving them the chance and time to follow practice guidelines and develop

quality-required solutions. By allocating roles, health professionals enhance their knowledge,

skills, and courage to handle health problems effectively without fear. They are also able to think

critically in times of urgency and make prompt decisions. The allocation of roles improves the

delivery of healthcare services and increases patient satisfaction. Allocation of roles aims to

create responsible and accountable health professionals who can collaborate to foresee positive

implementation.

Through evidence-based practices, patients’ trust is enhanced since the interactions

between them are created. The research incorporated with evidence-based practices increases

patients’ satisfaction since assisting patients on their recovery process motivates nurses to

implore more quality techniques to reduce costs of healthcare services to accommodative levels.

Conclusions

Evidence-based practices promote overall professional development as it also provides

elements and data that guide nurses to recognize interventions and strategies to use to improve

daily practices. Evidence-based practices incorporated with theories and quality research

promote nations’ healthy well-being since a healthy country is the first realization of economic

development. Healthcare teams should, therefore, encourage nurses’ roles through evidence-

based practices and research to allow efficient management of cost-effective resources

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References

Cannon, S., & Boswell, C. (2016). Evidence-based teaching in nursing: A foundation for

educators. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.

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.

Mick, J. (2017). Funneling evidence into practice. Nursing management, 48(7), 27-34.