實證護理於臨床之應用

With the increasing complexity of the health care settings, nurses need to continuously absorb new information about a timely fashion so that they can employ evidence-based knowledge and skills to provide good quality patient care and to maintain safety and optimal benefits for the patients.
By implementing evidence-based nursing (EBN), nurses identify clinical problems, search the best evidence in a short period of time, correctly appraise the literature, and make clinical decisions based on evidence. The application of EBN helps bridge the gap between empirical research and clinical practice. This paper introduces the basic concepts and the five steps of EBN. In addition, a case scenario is provided to exemplify these steps. After reading the paper, nurses can have a better understanding of EBN. Hopefully, nurses will apply EBN in their practice to identify problems in clinical situations and to establish the best problem-solving protocol.