Week 1

Question 1

What is evidence-based practice? I’m

Answer 1

When nurses make clinical decisions using the best available research evidence, their clinical expertise and patient preferences in the context of existing resources.

Question 2

Why is research so important for nurses?

Answer 2

To ensure diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover facts or principles. Allows professionals to make better informed decisions and choices.

Question 3

What three things does evidence based practice depend on?

Answer 3

• evidence
• expertise
• patient values

Question 4

What are the 6 steps of EBP?

Answer 4

• Ask a clinical question
• Search for possible answers
• Appraise and select only the best
• Integrate into your practice
• Evaluate how it went
• Disseminate what you find

Question 5

What is PICO(T)

Answer 5

Patient/population
Intervention 
Control/comparison 
Outcome
(Time)

Question 6

What are 3 types of information recourses?

Answer 6

• Filtered resources- Cochrane, National Guidelines, DynaMed, ACPPIER
• Unfiltered/Primary literature- PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science.
• General Information- Textbooks, Clinical Key

Question 7

What is determined in the Appraisal step?

Answer 7

• Level of evidence
• How well the study was conducted
• How useful it is to your patients

Question 8

What is Evidence?

Answer 8

• Data to establish truth or falsehood
• Empirical evidence vs Experience
• Shift from quantitative evidence only to acceptance of qualitative
• Include systematic reviews; meta-analyses

Question 9

Who is Florence Nightingale?

Answer 9

Early proponent of evidence based practice.

• “passionate statistician”
• Promoted systematic collection and presentation of data
• First woman elected ‘Fellow Royal Statistical Society’ (1860)
• Used health statistics to advocate for reforms in health policy and practice

Question 10

Why is EBP important to health professionals?

Answer 10

• Accountability
• Professional standards
• Clinical competence and safety
• improved practice and service
• Applying research to the real world of work

Question 11

What are the benefits of EBP?

Answer 11

• Patients- best/safest practice based on the best evidence
• Nurses- easier access to best practice interventions/knowledge
• Healthcare orgs- provides quality healthcare; reduces litigation
• The community- efficient use of resources; current, effective care

Question 12

Sources of knowledge?

Answer 12

• Tradition and custom
• Authority and role models
• Intuition
• Personal experience
• Trial and Error
• Reasoning
• Research

Question 13

What is research?

Answer 13

Formal, rigorous and precise process of inquiry that is planned and systematic