EBP

Evidence Based Practice
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Evidence-based practice is the procedure of using evidence, experience as well as the patient’s anticipations to make clinical decisions. Many fields including nursing have used this method for diagnosis and treatment. The process mostly uses a technique which most people refer to as the gold standard otherwise known as the Cochrane systematic evaluations. To find substantial evidence for decision making, the medical doctors should begin with designing a statement that will give straightforward answers. Many physicians use the PICO method, or patient or population group, Intervention or indicator, comparison or control, and outcome, to structure their questions.
Following this is decoding the PICO into a search plan that applies to a database which helps in finding evidence. Here, the first step is to handle every entity as a single idea. After this, evaluate the selected words in every step to find out whether there are possible alternative words. Finally, integrate all your concepts using and to bloc them into single research. However, technicians do not need to sum up all the four entities, only the relating/relevant concepts should be combined. After this, a variety of databases like Trip database, Evidence-based nursing, Cochrane library, or Centre for Evidence Based Medicine can be used to search the data (Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt, 2011) .The next step applicable is a quality assessment of the evidence, which is the most critical.

The best and highest indication like the Cochrane Systematic review is used in this stage. The absence of a highly ranked technique might force the nurse to drop to the lesser hierarchies. Most importantly, the nurses ought to be very critical at this stage. Key considerations here are like the credibility of the source like qualifications of the author, reasonability-objectivity and impartiality, precision, and support from other authors or sources.
Having followed this, the last thing to do is to apply the evidence to your patient. Before this, critical assessment should be done and use it to justify the clinical decisions made. One’s nursing experience and the values held by the patients should be applied together with this.
Reference
Melnyk, B. M., & Fineout-Overholt, E. (Eds.). (2011). Evidence-based practice in nursing & healthcare: A guide to best practice. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.