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Current Research: Integrative Medicine
Nursing Care & ICNND 2018
October 22-23, 2018
October 22-23, 2018 Madrid, Spain
46
th
World Congress on
Nursing Care, Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
Evidenced-based practice: The art of the practice of nursing
Bernadette Breslin
DNP Student Aspen University, USA
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he Institute of Medicine called for the use of evidenced-based practice approaches to care in 2001 in response to a national
initiative to provide a higher standard of healthcare. In 1999 it was estimated that up to 268 people a day in the United States
died as a result of medical errors, there was a call to action. The use of scientific knowledge to guide all healthcare practices became
the new standard and expectation both by the experts and soon thereafter by the recipients of care. Bringing evidenced-based practice
to bedside implementation did not arrive with its own blueprint and the nursing profession has struggled for several years on how
to successfully integrate these processes into useable form. Transitioning deeply rooted practices to the newer approaches requires
the leader to participate in the journey, shoulder to shoulder, point of care work, demonstrating the possibility and spreading the
good news. Healthcare workers are facing many challenges in their daily quest to deliver good care in today’s dynamic healthcare
environment, if we are to expect them to conform to new practices we are going to have to pave the way and lay the foundation piece
by piece. A description on a successful bedside report implementation project on a level 111 NICU brings forth success and failures
and missteps that became a huge learning curve and emblazoned a passion to continue in this effort. A notable missing component
that resulted in the profession being underserved in this area was the identification of individuals with the skills, knowledge and
passion for the work. How is this work going to be completed? There is a recent increase in Doctor of Nursing Programs to facilitate
the education on evidenced-based practice implementation. That is a start; bringing evidence-based practice to fruition at the bedside
requires time, talent and team effort. The work is possible, plausible and paramount for optimal healthcare delivery in the 21
st
century.
berniebreslin@hotmail.comJ Current Res: Int Medicine 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.4172/2529-797X-C2-006