BLOG: OBSERVATION OF EBP

BLOG: OBSERVATION OF EBP 

As a DNP-prepared nurse, you will have a significant voice in your healthcare setting to advocate for evidence-based practice (EBP). Understanding how evidence can inform better nursing care and improve patient outcomes is fundamental to successful advocacy.

Blogs help facilitate a meaningful and more informal classroom environment—one that fosters dialogue, interaction, and the dissemination of ideas in a functional platform (Kuo et al., 2017). Blogs also promote community building and a collaborative learning approach through the sharing of ideas. Although this blog may function somewhat like a Discussion, its aim is to be more open ended and informal in terms of sharing perspectives, thoughts, and experiences on a given prompt.

For this Blog entry, you will observe a healthcare organization with which you work currently (or if that is not possible, an organization with which you worked previously) to identify examples of EBP, as well as examples for which EBP is needed.  

Resources

Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity. Click the weekly resources link to access the resources. 

WEEKLY RESOURCES

To Prepare

· Review the Learning Resources for this week related to EBP.

· Consider the conditions that support EBP within healthcare organizations. 

· Observe a healthcare organization with which you work currently (or if that is not possible, an organization with which you worked previously) to identify examples of EBP that have been successful.

· Observe a healthcare organization with which you work currently (or if that is not possible, an organization with which you worked previously) to identify examples of nursing practices that lack an evidence base and have been less than successful.

Note: Be sure to review the grading rubric for this Blog so you fully understand what is expected of you. To access the rubric, click on the  three dots that appear at the upper right of the Blog Assignment page. Choose  Show Rubric.

By Day 3 Of Week 4

Address the following in your Blog entry:

· Describe one example you observed in which evidence-based practice (EBP) has been utilized. Explain why it has been successful.

· Describe one example you observed in which EBP has not been utilized. Explain why it has not been successful. Then, explain how utilizing evidence could help make the nursing practice more successful.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ posts.