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Volume 3
Journal of Nursing Research and Practice
Nursing & Pediatrics 2019
February 25-26, 2019
February 25-26, 2019 | London, UK
5
th
World Congress on
Neonatology and Pediatrics
World Congress on
Nursing Research and Evidence Based Practice
&
Emerging role of nursing in evidence-based practice
Olivia Cattuti
Les Petites Blouses, France
T
he economic rationale of healthcare institutions and the financial difficulties they have been facing for the past decades,
combined with the growing complexity of the medical care, have contributed to an increase of the skills and duties expected
from nurses. This has led to a slow shift of their position: they are not just mere executors of the doctors’ orders anymore, but
qualified professionals, with their own science. Evidence Based Practice (EPB) in nursing embraces this vision, giving nurses a
major role in the patient recovery by providing him the most accurate and attested care he could receive, according to the current
state of scientific knowledge. However, EPB is still merely used at the nurse level. Among the reasons for this statement, besides the
lack of time. the poor ability to translate knowledge which requires the capacity to find, to understand scientific articles and to have
a critical judgement on them and which is strongly connected to the education level. EPB implementation in nursing is therefore
highly dependent on our ability to reconsider nurse education. Some have suggested to train nurses already working to develop their
researching faculty: the « EXTRA » program in Canada for example has shown interesting results in this regard but its application
represents an additional cost for health facilities and remains restricted to few people at a time. That is why one naturally focus on
ways to renew nurse initial training. Challenges are numerous though: indeed, it is necessary to assess how to integrate an academic
education into a professionalising training, how to encourage both critical thinking and peer learning during clinical trainings, how
to link EPB to competence and especially how to deconstruct stereotypes which surround nurses (devoted women, kind and manual-
skilled but low-qualified and underpaid) among society, young people and even among nurse-students themselves.
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