EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE

Evidence Based Practice- Analysis 1.2



Evidence Based Practice- Analysis 1.2

Introduction

Evidence Based Practice (EBP) is defined as the use conscious, explicit and judicious use of current and current evidence in making decisions in the care of individual patients. The EBP aims to combine the experience of methodologically health professional with the most current information on the clinical situation it faces. The advantage is obvious: the young professional can make better decisions despite a lack of enough years in clinical practice. Sources of evidence-based practice come in many forms: criticism of original articles, systematic reviews, guidelines for medical practice. There are several websites on the subject. This paper evaluates a non-profit, globally recognized, membership based website on evidence based medicine sponsored by Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) of the University of North Carolina EBP, which is a growing global leader in evidence based health care's facilitation and promotion. On the site one can find educational materials on various issues in the field of study subjects (www.joannabriggs.edu.au).

Discussion

The purpose of the website is to provide students and individuals associated with the nursing and medicine field with the finest existing evidence in order to improve their decision making while working as a nurse or health practitioner. The organization which is sponsoring this website is the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI), which got established in the year 1996, and is a dynamic international association comprising of medical, allied health and nursing clinicians, researchers, quality managers and academics from forty countries representing all the seven continents.

This website is designed for clinicians, researchers and students seeking quality information in clinical practice, without having to sort through hundreds of articles. They reflect the common practice in medicine to base clinical decisions on accumulated evidence from current medical literature. These resources provide critical summaries of current medical research by scrutinizing the ...