Evidence-Based Nursing

Evidence-based nursing creates quality decisions and providing nursing care based upon personal clinical expertise in combination with the most current, relevant research available on the topic. This approach uses evidence-based practice as a foundation.

Evidence based Nursing aims to improve the health and wellbeing of patients while also providing care in a cost-effective manner to improve the outcomes for both the patient and the healthcare system. Evidence-based nursing focus on the collection, interpretation, evaluation, and integration of valid, clinically significant, and applicable research.

Research used in EBP falls into four categories. They are:

1. Randomized controlled trials.
2. Evidence collected from cohort, case-control analysis or observational studies.
3. Opinions from clinical specialists that are supported by experiences, studies or reports from committees.
4. Personal experience.