Nurse leaders can foster acceptance of evidence-based practice by providing RNs with a process to question changes. Change is good. But it can also be hard. This is often the case when nursing ...

Evidence-based nursing is the process by which nurses and other clinical experts determine best practices in healthcare. Using the electronic platform Ovid Synthesis, AdventHealth has broadened the ...

The term “nurse treatments” is not a standard medical phrase, but it generally refers to medical care or procedures that nurses provide as part of a person’s treatment plan. These treatments are based ...

Researchers have come up with an answer for health care systems and professionals struggling with how to most effectively adopt evidence-based practice in their clinical settings. They've developed ...

The Sarah Cole Hirsh Institute for Best Nursing Practices Based on Evidence was established by the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing in 1998 with a generous endowment from Sarah Cole Hirsh. The ...

Registered nurses (RNs) and advanced practice nurses (APNs) should implement 24 competencies--or combinations of skill and knowledge--to factor evidence-based care into clinical settings, according to ...

Many common nursing practices derive from tradition rather than empirical evidence that they are effective, according to an article in Critical Care Nurse. The researchers, led by Mary Beth Flynn ...

To significantly impact the improvement of quality in healthcare, one needs to apply evidence-based practice (EBP). Without EBP, healthcare providers are at risk for variances in care that could ...

Intensive care unit nurses who receive specialty certification place greater value on using evidence-based practices, according to a study published in the American Journal of Critical Care.

A scoping review reveals that nurses’ routine use of non-sterile gloves during IV antibiotic preparation offers no proven protection, and may actually undermine infection control, increase costs, and ...