It is well known that evidence-based practice (EBP) is an indispensable part of health care and plays a critical role in reducing practical variability, enhancing health care quality, perfecting the health care system, improving patients’ outcomes, and decreasing costs (Fu et al., 2020). It is proved by multiple researchers, such as, for example, Fu, Su, Soll, and McGuire, that long-term use of evidence-based practice is necessary. Therefore, the main goal is to implement those principles correctly to maximize the success of such an endeavor.
First, challenges in integrating guidelines on medical practice to improve the quality of treatment are quite easy to solve by increasing the professional motivation of nurses. This can be done by providing evidence-based practice incentives. Indeed, such innovations may require quite detailed knowledge of how individual services are structured, delivered, and evaluated, how decisions are made and implemented, and which barriers and incentives to better care provision exist (Soll & McGuire, 2019). Therefore, stimulating the work of caregivers can be an effective way of providing medical transformation and development.
Second, problems in translating research into practice and dynamic changes in institutional culture can also be potential obstacles to achieving the best possible outcomes of the aforementioned practice. Multidisciplinary cooperation between healthcare professionals is crucial to reduce workload and facilitate knowledge transfer, particularly to newly-occupied nurses. The key components of quality improvement that target perinatal healthcare systems and providers include staffing changes, audit and feedback cycles, clinician reminders, and educational outreach by experts or local opinion leaders. Hence, interactive educational meetings and games, the use of computerized reminders, and service user education can be useful in implementing new principles of medical care.
In addition, nurses’ evidence-based practice competency is one of the preconditions for better evidence-based practice implementation. Multifaceted initiatives within network-based collaborative quality improvement programs facilitate continuous audit and benchmarking cycles to ensure equity of access to evidence-based care practices. Evidence-based practice is the conscientious, explicit, judicious, and reasonable use of current evidence in making decisions about the care of populations or individuals. It integrates clinical experience with people’s values and the best available research information.
References
Fu, L., Su, W., Ye, X., Li, M., Shen, J., Chen, C.,… & He, Y. (2020). Evidence-Based Practice Competency and Related Factors Among Nurses Working in Public Hospitals. The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 57.
Soll, R. F., & McGuire, W. (2019). Evidence-based practice: Improving the quality of perinatal care. Neonatology, 116(3), 193-198.