Week 1: Types of Nursing Models and Frameworks of EBP

Week 1: Types of Nursing Models and Frameworks of EBP

What are some of the models and frameworks of EBP currently in use? How does the strength of the evidence determine translation into practice? Why is it important to integrate both evidence-based practice and patient and family preferences? What is the nurse’s responsibility when EBP and patient and family practice do not match?

There are many challenges in nursing today. As a registered nurse, you practice in complex and ever-changing environments. You must be knowledgeable about these changes in order to ensure that your nursing practice evolves in a positive direction. Healthcare professionals must be educated to deliver patient-centered care while functioning as members of interdisciplinary teams. Ability to analyze and synthesize research, integrate evidence-based practice (EBP), quality improvement (QI) approaches, and informatics are all critically important for patient safety and improved patient outcomes. The approach to changing the current situation or problem depends on many factors, such as your facility preference, and the setting or the type of problem itself.

Why should nursing focus on raising the standard or bar of practice? By raising the bar, quality, safe, patient-centered care can be administered in an environment where nurses can provide the best nursing care, think critically, ask clinical questions, and initiate change to improve outcomes for the patients and themselves. During this course, we’ll consider healthcare environments and problems within these environments as well as what can be done to resolve these problems. As you read this material, consider your experience with these types of situations. You will reflect on how to verify the dimensions of a problem within your work setting. As you reflect, try to identify specific strategies that might be used to produce a more positive outcome.

So, what are research, EBP, and QI, and what are the differences?

Research requires systematically investigating numerous sources and materials over time in order to establish new conclusions for a problem. This can take years to be able to come up with the best conclusion to report.

EBP uses current best conclusions or evidence produced by current research efforts to make decisions about patients’ care.

QI consists of a systematic and data -driven approach to find measurable improvement in healthcare services, processes, and outcomes (Conner, 2014).

There are four QI principles.

· QI work as systems and processes