Implementation of New Research in Nursing

Implementation of New Research in Nursing

Importance of evidence-Based Practice in Nursing

The combination of analysis evidence, clinician’s know-how, and the welfare of patients is known as Evidence-Based Practice (EBP). The application of evident research has significantly improved the expertise and science used while practising as a nurse. The analysis guides the practitioners to make sober decisions about the patients’ medical conditions.

Additionally, the nurses get updated about the developing methods involved in patient care and, as a result, increase recovery chances of patients. According to Wright et al. (2016), patients get the confidence to open up about what they think about the treatment process. On the other hand, EBP helps the nurses to evaluate any potential harm or injuries on the patients. There are various steps included in EPB, which include the practitioner’s need to find out about the patient’s problem. As a result, the nurse can argue out the best treatment to give to the patient. However, the treatment should be supported in the clinical field before its application. After confirming the efficiency of the method, the nurse puts it into practice.

EBP affects the morals and attitudes applied in medical practice resulting in improvement in the delivery services offered to patients (Moch et al., 2015). Additionally, EBP reduces the expenses in medical health because of the need for resources used in healthcare decrease. However, there is a need to innovate measures that help overcome barriers to the widespread use of the current analysis. Personal and organizational boundaries have been cited as the main obstacles. For example, inadequate know-how about conducting an examination, awareness of the essence of research, and criticizing the analysis methods are among the personal obstacles. Additionally, the nursing fraternity lacks confidence in conducting research involved in their practice. The organizations’ barriers cited include inadequate time for new methods implementation, inadequate research tools, and the inability to approach the analysis personally.

Researchers identified organizations’ support to nurses as an essential factor associated with EBP. This initiative helps the nurses build confidence without the fear of victimization in case of the emergence of errors. According to Dang & Dearholt (2017), hospitals should avail advanced nurses, analysts, and mentors to help train unskilled nurses about the importance of applying EBP in medical practice. The use of advanced research on patients helps build trust with the health care providers resulting from the effectiveness of the methods employed and success in the treatment process. At the same time, nurses are encouraged nurses to acknowledge the use of EBP in their practice. The establishment, involvement and employment of research experts in medical sectors are essential in motivating nurses about the use of EPB. When hospitals engage analysts in research, the assurance of positive and efficient outcomes is guaranteed. The fact that adequate health care is a priority in medical practice, the nurses, should come up with the best treatment procedures.

Every hospital and health care sector has the responsibility of complying with the set medical strategies and procedures ranging from discharging patients’ processes to the maintenance of hygiene of patients and the health care workers. Complying with the set strategy and methods reduces accidents and provides a conducive working environment for both the practitioners and patients. Hospital policies and methods responsibilities include encouraging professionalism and giving guidance to new staff and personnel. At the same time, the strategies discourage the reliance of memory by nurses, which result in medical errors.

Through the application of EBP, all procedures conducted in hospitals enhance the health of patients. For example, in Intra Muscular injection, the aspiration process is used. This process involves the application of little pressure by pulling the plunger for a period of five to ten seconds after muscle needle insertion. However, it is done before medication administration. The process is carried out to avoid accidents that may arise from medicine administration. This aspiration process is considered traditional, with no evidence support. The recent research conducted about medication confirmed that there is inadequate published information about this injection process (Salerno & Robinson, 2015). Additionally, no confirmation has been reported if aspiration consisting of blood or no blood confirms how or where the needle is placed.

The research continues to state that doing away with the aspiration process will save on time. This is because the five to ten seconds involved would be decreased, and as a result, injection time is reduced because the pulling the needle on a muscle causes pain. When the pulling back process is done away with the medication in the syringe comes in to contact with the tissue directly. Therefore, eliminating aspiration would enhance the compliance of the internal muscles to the medicine administered. However, intramuscular injection is not appropriate for skeletal muscles because there are no blood capillaries found in these muscles.

Additionally, the EBP confirmed that the injection period of five to ten seconds during aspiration done to verify that blood does not return lacks consistent performance. On the other hand, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has concluded that performing the pulling back of needle process before administering an injection is not essential because of the absence of substantial blood capillaries on the approved sites. Additionally, any pathological process that acknowledges aspiration might seem more painful, especially to infants. The research also found out that in four years, over 36,000 aspiration injections resulted in allergies as a result of returning blood. This practice, therefore, poses a danger and injuries to patients. A reasoning committee of practitioners recommended the policy to implement changes during injections.

Strategies and Procedures in Hospitals

Ghanem et al., (2015) explains that there are different types of policies in a health care centre, which include the managerial, human resources resource, care providence, information, and pharmaceutical systems.  The fact that the administrative policy is the primary determinant of the hospital’s smooth-running is essential to ensure that this policy complies with the set medical rules and regulations practice. The administration’s policy roles are to make sure that the staff is comfortable in the workplace. As a result, the managerial policy becomes the most important in health care sectors. Consequently, the plan ensures that patients and visitors are offered satisfactory services. The hospital administrative team sets the patient’s visiting hours, buys the hospital equipment such as beds, and controls all the activities necessary in maintaining the health care facility.

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is essential to certified nurses in the days to come because it gives them the confidence to discover more research, which significantly helps the nursing practice. Importantly, EBP encourages morals in the place of work. Therefore, if, in any case, certified nurses decide to own a health care facility, the training from EBP helps the hospital successfully deliver services. Maintaining ethics in hospitals will result in patient’s safety, protecting them from potential harms and injuries.

In conclusion, Evidence-Based Practice, being a combination of evidence of research conducted, plays significant roles in ensuring the well-being of both the health care practitioners and patients. The nurse’s expertise is enhanced and therefore gets the ideas of dealing with various health conditions. Additionally, practitioners get to understand ways of finding solutions when dangers or injuries happen to patients. After finding out a medical problem, the nurses should evaluate the evidence discovered before approving it. Consequently, EBP is cost effective because the resources required in hospitals are decreased. Although challenges face the process of implementing new research, the nursing organization has established the solution to the barriers, which include employing experienced analysts and mentors in the hospital.

Additionally, EBP has introduced new research in various medical fields, for example, the elimination of the aspiration injection method. In every health care centre, setting strategies and procedures are essential for the welfare of both the nurses and patients.  The managerial policy is the most important in any hospital setting because it spearheads all the hospital’s operations.

References

Dang, D., & Dearholt, S. L. (2017). Johns Hopkins nursing evidence-based practise model and guidelines. Sigma Theta Tau.

Salerno, A., & Robinson, K. (2015). NG Tube Placement Methods: An EBP Review.

Wright, J., Lawton, R., O’Hara, J., Armitage, G., Sheard, L., Marsh, C., … & Thomson, R. (2016). Improving patient safety through the involvement of patients: development and evaluation of novel interventions to engage patients in preventing patient safety incidents and protecting them against unintended harm.

Moch, S. D., Quinn-Lee, L., Gallegos, C., & Sortedahl, C. K. (2015). Navigating evidence-based practice projects: the faculty role. Nursing education perspectives, 36(2), 128-130.

Ghanem, M., Schnoor, J., Heyde, C. E., Kuwatsch, S., Bohn, M., & Josten, C. (2015). Management strategies in hospitals: scenario planning. GMS Interdisciplinary Plastic and reconstructive surgery DGPW, 4.