Respond to both post listed below separately by visiting the websites they shared and offering additional examples of EBP or alternative views/interpretations to those shared in your colleagues’ posts.

Respond to both post listed below separately by visiting the websites they shared and offering additional examples of EBP or alternative views/interpretations to those shared in your colleagues’ posts.

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The healthcare organization website I reviewed is the American Psychiatric Nurse Association (APNA). This organization is the largest membership organization that focuses on different aspects of mental health. For example, they focus on wellness, prevention, and treatment for mental health disorders (APNA, n.d.). As I look for evidence-based practice (EBP) on this website, it is spread out through their vision, structure, collegiality, and continuing education. According to Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt (2018), “EBP enhances healthcare quality, improves patient outcomes, reduces costs, and empowers clinicians”.

The work is grounded in EBP. In the vision statement, they promote EBP advances. In their structure, APNA shares research via online, conference calls, and through chapter meetings. APNA believes this is a way to distribute standards quickly and can reach a wide audience. With collegiality, APNA disperses state of the art information through the website and other modalities that are available to their members only. Lastly, APNA uses continuing education that provides the most current information in mental health research and practices (APNA, n.d.).

The information I discovered change my perception of the organization. I did not know very much about the organization, but after looking into it, I have a better appreciation for what they offer psychiatric nurses and providers who work in this field. I like the idea of conferences that provide continuing education and current information. APNA provides in-person education and online education (APNA, n.d.). It is important to belong to some type of professional organization and one that is specific to your field because they help promote policy and practice. They also provide career growth, networking, and education (Nichols, 2020).

References

American Psychiatric Nurses Association. (n.d.).  About the American psychiatric nurses association: An introduction. Retrieved December 1, 2020, from  https://www.apna.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3277

Melnyk, B. M., & Fineout-Overholt, E. (2018). Evidence-based practice in nursing & healthcare: A guide to best practice (4th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.

Nichols, J. (2020, September 2020). 10 benefits of joining professional nursing organizations and associations. Retrieved December 1, 2020, from  https://nurseslabs.com/10-benefits-joining-professional-nursing-organizations-associations/

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            I checked the Johns Hopkins University Hospital Evidence-based Practice Center website. The phrase “evidence-based practice” appears at the top section of the landing home page as the key title (Bass & Robinson, 2019). The phrase also appears in the hospital's mission and vision statements. Studies show that the works, practices, and publications of the Johns Hopkins University Hospital is grounded in evidence-based practice. Parkosewich (2016) and Newhouse et al. (2017) posits that Johns Hopkins University Hospital has developed many evidence-based practice models such as the Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice (JHNEBP) model.

             The JHNEBP model is a reliable model used to solve the complex problems involved in clinical decision-making. The model has user-friendly tools that can guide physicians and clinicians towards effective decision making in clinical contexts. The model is designed to guide a practicing nurse towards a more reliable decision-making processing through the PET formula: a clinical practice question, evidence, and clinical translation (Haussler, 2018). The core objective of the JHNEBP model is to facilitate the rapid implementation of the latest and best clinical practices and research outcomes into patient care.  I’ve always associated the Johns Hopkins University Hospital with high standards of clinical care and evidence-based practices. The collaborative efforts made to generate the JHNEBP model to facilitate the implementation of the latest research findings bolster my perceptions about the healthcare facility regarding competence and reliability. As such, the information I discovered on the healthcare organization’s website has not changed my perception of the healthcare organization.

References

Bass, E., & Robinson, K. (2019). Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Center. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. https://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/johns-hopkins-evidence-based-practice-center/

Haussler, S. C. (2018). The Johns Hopkins nursing evidence-based practice model and guidelines. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 39(9), 432–432. https://doi.org/10.3928/00220124-20080901-08

Newhouse, R., Dearholt, S., Poe, S., Pugh, L. C., & White, K. M. (2017). Evidence-based Practice. JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 35(1), 35–40. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005110-200501000-00013

Parkosewich, A. (2016). An infrastructure to advance the scholarly work of staff nurses. The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 86(1), 63–77. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3584497/

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