NRS 493 Topic 1 DQ 2 The Institute of Medicine has stated a goal that 90% of practice be evidence-based by 2020
NRS 493 Topic 1 DQ 2 The Institute of Medicine has stated a goal that 90% of practice be evidence-based by 2020
Topic 1 DQ 2
Apr 18-22, 2022
The Institute of Medicine has stated a goal that 90% of practice be evidence-based by 2020.
According to HealthyPeople.gov, the United States is currently at approximately 15%. Discuss
two barriers that might hold nursing practice from achieving this goal and suggest ways in which
identified barriers may be addressed.
Lydia Kwofie
Posted Date
Apr 23, 2022, 3:29 AM
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Evidence-based practice (EBP) has become the new approach to care delivery in the healthcare
sector. Liu et al. (2019), regarded EBP as the care practice that entails searching current literature
and trends on a given healthcare issue and evaluating the highest quality findings or solutions to
implement hence improving care delivery, patient experience, and outcome. At the same time,
the Institute of Medicine has stated that the goal is to attain 90% and above practice in nursing
EBP by 2020; only 15% has been achieved in the United States. Evidence-based practices have
been linked with quality care, knowledge acquisition and generation, and improved patient
outcomes. However, adopting the EBP into practice is not a straightforward case. This essay
discusses challenges or barriers holding nursing practice from achieving the 90% goal of
evidence-based practice and strategies to address the challenges
The barriers to the Adoption of EBP in Nursing Practice
EBP has been identified as the method to obtain the highest level of care for patients (Thoele et
al., 2020). Barriers to EBP adoption can be organizational or individual-based. One barrier is the
lack of adequate resources to facilitate evidence-based research, limiting nurses from actively
participating in generating evidence or knowledge to be used in care delivery. Lack of resources
resulted in research inaccessibility, hence was difficult to collect data and make effective
statistical analyses. This obstacle has limited nurses and care providers to the old and traditional
care practices, curtailing the research of modern or evidence-based care practices.
Secondly, lack of time, knowledge, and resistance to change. Nurses have been recognized as the
key players in the health sector. Nurse shortage in the country has subjected the available ones to
be busy with their care delivery work. Time limitations have often limited nurses’ indulgence in
implementing EBP. More so, limited knowledge about the EBP process has also limited its
adoption into nursing practice. Concerning limited knowledge and time, healthcare professionals
have resisted the notion of change, ‘citing it has always been done this way,’ an obstacle to
organizational culture change towards EBP.
Strategies to Address the Barriers
Despite the barriers to adopting and utilizing evidence-based practices in nursing, it has become
inevitable to ignore the EBP paradigm (Mahmoud & Abdelrasol, 2019). Healthcare
organizations have been forced to assimilate into the EBP practices slowly. One approach to
foster the adoption of EBP is an organizational investment into evidence-based support tools
such as research centers and libraries, enabling nurses to participate in the research process
actively. Financial support can be aligned with administration support. In addition to the
provision of needed tools, the administration support fosters positive culture change within an
organization, resulting in a higher acceptance rate for evidence-based practices.
The second approach is through nurse training and collaboration approach to adopting EBP.
According to Mathieson et al. (2018), culture change success is determined by the collaboration
input among the various stakeholders. Nurses' training allows or motivates them to learn the
application of the new evidence. It helps them link their practice to the best or quality patient
care and experience. Collaboration and engaging the stakeholders help build trust and motivate
nurses and other caregivers to learn and adopt evidence-based practices.
In conclusion, EBP is changing the way care delivery is done. However, this has not been an
easy case as it needs planning resources, perseverance, and stakeholders’ willingness to adopt the
change. Lack of resources, limited time knowledge, and time and resistance to change has
curtailed the rate of EBP adoption; measures such as collaboration among stakeholders, worker
training, and administration indulgence have helped revert the trend towards successful adoption
and utilization of EBP in nursing practices.
References
Liu, Y., Zupan, N. J., Swearingen, R., Jacobson, N., Carlson, J. N., Mahoney, J. E., Klein, R.,
Bjelland, T. D., & Smith, M. A. (2019). Identification of barriers, facilitators and system-based
implementation strategies to increase teleophthalmology use for diabetic eye screening in a rural
US primary care clinic: A qualitative study. BMJ Open, 9(2) http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-
2018-022594
Mahmoud, M. H., & Abdelrasol, Z. F. M. (2019). Obstacles in employing evidence-based
practice by nurses in their clinical settings: a descriptive study. Frontiers of Nursing, 6(2),
123–133. https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2019-0019
Mathieson, A., Grande, G., & Luker, K. (2018). Strategies, facilitators and barriers to
implementation of evidence-based practice in community nursing: a systematic mixed-studies
review and qualitative synthesis. Primary Health Care Research & Development, 20.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s1463423618000488
Thoele, K., Ferren, M., Moffat, L., Keen, A., & Newhouse, R. (2020). Development and use of a
toolkit to facilitate implementation of an evidence-based intervention: A descriptive case
study. Implementation Science Communications, 1, 1-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43058-020-
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Myphuong Westmoreland
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Apr 23, 2022, 9:05 AM
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You are absolutely correct Lydia, resistance to change ,and not only in the nursing field.
Instead of being a people that wants to learn and gain new knowledge, we are a people
that just want to never change, and I am not talking about politics. How can we implore
the public to embrace change? I am interested to hear what you think, and anyone else
that would like to take on this question. Change is hard, but as nurses, we need to be able
to change and be appreciative of change, change is what brings about positive patient
outcomes. Just think if we didn't embrace change, we would still be autoclaving our
needles and reusing glass bottles for our IV medications. Can you imagine doing this
today!?
Medicine as a whole is always changing and being updated. I know it can be time
consuming but as nurses our main priority is to provide the best care we are capable of to
our patients and try to improve their outcomes. If we are resistant to changing the way we
do things then our patients are not receiving the most up to date care which is not in their
best interest.
Great post Lydia!
Li, S., Cao, M., & Zhu, X. (2019). Evidence-based practice: Knowledge, attitudes,
implementation, facilitators, and barriers among community nurses-systematic review.
Medicine, 98(39), e17209. https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000017209
Coraline Powell
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Apr 23, 2022, 6:00 PM(edited)
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Hello Lydia,
In my research, I did establish that education played a key role in determining how
conversant and competent nurses were in terms of evidence-based practice. Nurses that
has extra certification and advanced education were more competent in EBP (Yoder et
al., 2022). This therefore does confirm that your suggestion to train nurses would be a
great way to not only improve competency, but also ensure that nurses contribute to the
development and implementation of EBP. For instance, EBP can be included in
continuing education in order to improve the competency of the nurses engaging in it.
Cognizant of the role that training plays when it comes to improving a nurse’s
competencies in EBP and thus empowering them to contribute to the development of
EBP, here are certain strategies that can be undertaken from both an organizational level,
to the larger professional level. At the organizational level, the organization can organize
for opportunities where their nurses can get trained on evidence based practice. On the
greater professional levels, professional bodies such as the ANA and the ANCC have

developed certification program for nurses. By including components of evidence based
practice in the certification exams, this ensures that nurses will prepare and apprise
themselves on EBP and thus, in order to earn the certification, they will have to be
competent in EBP. Alternatively, the institutions can include a whole different
certification for EBP, where nurses will specifically be trained on EBP, tested on the
same and thus, their competency will be proven by their certification. This will ultimately
improve their ability to participate in the development and implementation of EBP.
References
Yoder, L. H., Cengiz, A., Hinkley, T., Hertel, R. A., Gallagher-Ford, L., & Koshy
Thomas, B. (2022). Medical-surgical nurses' EBP beliefs and competencies. Worldviews
on evidence-based nursing, 19(2), 149–159. https://doi.org/10.1111/wvn.12567
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