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Avista Adventist Hospital is empowering nurses to make a difference through evidence-based practice. They are creating an environment that encourages nurses to ask if there’s a better way to produce superior outcomes.To find out more about this, visit the websites below.
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- Evidence-based practice is the delivery of patient care by a provider who integrates clinical expertise with the best available evidence from systematic research.
- It originated as evidence-based medicine in Great Britain and Canada by physicians who realized the need to make sure the care they delivered was effective and efficient.
- Nurse leaders in England initiated evidence-based nursing practice and formed a Center for Evidence-based Nursing at the University of York, in England
- The skills needed in evidence-based practice include using critical thinking skills to examine the evidence by reading research articles, using search engines on the computer and incorporating this information into practice.
The above information is from Issues in Staff Development and Continuing Education: Evidence-based Practice by Mary Krugman, PhD, RN, Director, Professional Resources, University of Colorado Hospital, Denver, CO.