EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE

Evidence based practice

Evidence based practice

Introduction

The evidence-based practice (EBP) is the use of best available scientific research in the care of individual patients. It is used mainly in medicine; and is also known as "Medicine based on proven facts" or "Evidence-based medicine."

EBP or "Evidence based nursing" one might say, then, is a working method appropriate for any care giver who wants to develop research into care and improve their professional practice.

Discussion

The PICO strategy can be used to build the research question. Nursing practice in recent decades is struggling to form a body of knowledge capital that could be ...