NURS 485 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Moral Agency, Inquiry-Based Learning, Hidden Curriculum
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Many terms are used in relation to ebp, such as evidence-based nursing, evidenced-base medicine, evidence-based healthcare etc essentially they are the same. It means integrating individual clinical experience with best available external clinical evidence from systemic research. But this definition has been refined over and over. Effectively it is the integration of evidence and knowledge. Professor archi cochrane (british epidemiologist) is usually credited with starting the. Social and political drivers: people had internet access and expected medical professionals to know the neweset information. Clinical effectiveness: the extent to which specific clinical interventions when deployed in the field for a patient or population, do what they are intended to do, which is to maintain and improve health and. Proper ebp considers the best available research evidence, client/population characteristics, sate, needs, preferences and values, resources, including practitioner expertise, all while considering the environmental and organizational context. Ebp may inhibit the ability to provide individualized care.