Nursing 2240F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Eye Strain, Random Assignment, Health Literacy
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Evidence based practice isn"t new we"ve been doing this for years. Evidence based nursing leads to cookbook nursing and a disregard for individualized patient care. There is an over-emphasis on randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews in evidence based health care. Evidence based practice isn"t new; its what we"ve been doing for years . 15 years ago, hunt noted nursing should become a researched based profession. While the recognition of importance of evidence based practice is not new, much of the past. 20 years has focused on the identi cation of the barriers to evidence based practice and the considerations of strategies to over come these barriers. Nurses nd it dif cult to access the research. Although we advocated evidence - based nursing for years, we have struggled with how to make it happen. Challenges to this issue have resulted in a number of initiative to improve access to research.