Evidence Based Practice In Nursing

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Yvette thank you for your educational post. We both chose evidence based practice to implement into our teaching. According to NurseOne.Ca (2017) it was Florence Nightingale that initiated evidence-based practice and nursing, she did it by proving that cleanliness decreased deaths. By using a cause and effect based teaching, nursing students could relate that evidence based practice is advantageous. Here is what Nurse.com stated:

“Evidence-based practice refers to making decisions about patient care that are based on the best evidence produced by well-designed clinical research. Numerous studies have suggested evidence-based care of patients can reduce patient complications decrease healthcare costs by as much as 30%.” According to Nurse.Com