Week 11 discussion
Discussion: Creating a Culture of Evidence-Based Practice
An abundance of evidence can be found on almost any medical
issue or health topic. Often, the availability of information is not the
concern, but rather nurses struggle with how to convey the evidence to others
and change practices to better reflect the evidence. Deep-rooted organizational
cultures and policies can make some resistant to change, even to changes that
can vastly improve the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of health care.
However, there are many strategies that nurses can employ to bring about
changes to practice.
In this Discussion, you focus on how to create an
organizational culture that supports evidence-based practice.
To prepare:
Review the information in this week’s Learning Resources.
Examine the various suggestions for promoting an organizational culture that
embraces the use of EBP.
Reflect on your own organization’s (or one in which you have
worked) support of evidence-based practice. Examine how culture and policies
impact the adoption of changes to practice based on evidence. What barriers
exist?
Consider the models and suggestions for promoting
evidence-based practice featured in this week’s Learning Resources. Identify
models and suggestions that would work well in your organization.
Reflect on the significance of evidence-based practice in
health care. What responsibility do nurses have to promote EBP and change
practices to better reflect evidence and research findings?
Reflect on how nurses can disseminate findings from
evidence-based practice research.
By Day 3
Post an evaluation of your organization’s use of EBP and how
it is furthered or hindered by organizational culture and policies. Describe
how you could disseminate the findings. Propose a strategy for strengthening
the culture of EBP within the organization. Discuss a nurse’s responsibility to
further the use of EBP, providing a rationale supported by specific information
from the Learning Resources.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days using one or more of the following approaches:
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, and evidence.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own review of the literature in the Walden
Library.
Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
sources.
Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
