Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing
The effects of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) have been reflected across nursing science, education and practice. Therefore the need for evidence-based practice health care quality and transformation and improvement underscores the call for effective, efficient, and safe care redesigning. Quality health care is defined as the degree to which various health services for both populations and individuals heighten the likelihood of improvement in health care outcomes. In order to maintain better patient outcomes, it is important to transform fresh knowledge into forms that are clinically useful. Moreover, these forms should be implemented effectively across an entire health care team with a meaningful impact on health outcomes and performance. In addition, these health care outcomes are also required to be consistent with present professional health concerning health care.
In compliance with the many recommendations on direction-setting from experts worldwide, nurses now respond to launch initiatives maximizing valuable contributions made by nurses to fully deliver on the promise of EBP. Some examples of these initiatives include adopting the practice, theory, and model development and curricular and education alignment. Additionally, for nurses as well as other health care professionals to effectively adopt and sustain the evidence-based practices, these EBP practices must also be adopted by policymakers, system leaders, and personal care providers. Besides, local, federal, state, and other recognition and regulatory actions are core for the adoption of EBP. For instance, through the Magnet Recognition Program, the nursing profession leads to the adoption of EBP and uses it as a marker of excellence.
Significance of Practice Theories in Clinical Situations
The development of nursing theories has led to major changes in medical practice and nursing. Essentially, the profession of nursing is based on combining these theories into practice. The different examples of nursing theories include situation-specific, grand, and midrange theories. Additionally, these theories comprise interlinked and logical concepts which help in providing a diagnostic perspective and systematic explanation of the specific nursing phenomena. Similarly, classifying nursing theories is based on the phenomenon of nursing and the classification of nursing theories. Practice theory in clinical practice is used as a tool for understanding the duality of environment and practice and, using that understanding, develops various propositions asserting nursing practice interdependency (Knight et al., 2019). Another importance of theories in clinical practice is providing foundational knowledge on concepts of care which enable health professionals in explaining what they do for patients as well as the reasons behind their actions. This advantage of the clinical theory is essential since it assists nurses in articulating the evidence justifying various methodologies in their practice.
Thirdly, practice models and theories are used in clinical program planning in order to comprehend and explain health behavior and to guide the implementation, development, and identification of health interventions. Some researches on clinical theories application reveal an overlapping of distinct convictions despite the settings in practice and population of patients (Mackey et al., 2021). However, whether a certain nursing theory is suitable for clinical practice is determined by the targeted population of patients and concepts (scope). I find grand theories to be the most applicable in clinical practice since they have the broadest scope among the three theories. As a result, the sustainability of these theories in addressing the diversity and dynamics of the present health care system is enhanced. The present health care system involves an increase in cultural diversity, disparate patient populations, and the urge to provide focused care to patients. Additionally, the Henderson Need theory: an example of a grand theory, can be applied to promote independence among a diverse group of patients ailing from different conditions through acknowledging the fourteen patient needs.
References
Knight, A. T., Cook, C. N., Redford, K. H., Biggs, D., Romero, C., Ortega-Argueta, A., Norman, C. D., Parsons, B., Reynolds, M., Eoyang, G. And Keene, M. (2019). Improving conservation practice with principles and tools from systems thinking and evaluation. Sustainability Science, 14(6), 1531-1548. Web.
Mackey, B., Appleton, C., Lee, J., Skidmore, S., & Taxman, F. (2021). At the intersection of research and practice: Constructing guidelines for a hybrid model of community supervision. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 101689. Web.