Based upon your learning during this week’s lesson, consider how research and evidence-based practice shape nursing and healthcare delivery. Respond to the following:

  1. Why are research and evidence-based practice important for professional nursing?
  2. How do research and evidence-based practice impact quality and safety in the healthcare delivery?
  3. What is one example where research or evidence-based practice is improving health outcomes in your area of practice or in your organization?
  4. If you were to conduct an evidence-based practice initiative, what practice-related issue would you address, and why?
  5. What theoretical framework, model, or nursing theory would you use to guide the evidence-based practice initiative?

Solution

  1. Why are research and evidence-based practice important for professional nursing?

As time progresses, we discover more about things we previously taken as fact. Research provides the opportunity to question these things and ask why. As we uncover the why we learn how to better care for our patients providing them with the best care possible (Kerr, & Rainey,2021).

  1. How do research and evidence-based practice impact quality and safety in the healthcare delivery?

When new information is discovered via research we can then apply it to practice to better improve the quality of the delivery of care….Kindly click the purchase icon to access the full solution at $5