Slide 3 That scientific advances in medicine and nursing will not stop the day YOU graduate!

To improve our skills and knowledge and giving the best care to our patient. Slide 4 EBP emphasizes that evidence must influence the decisions that we make. Example: using music therapy for pt. undergoing surgery. Slide 5 Focus on the evidence then what will be the result or the outcome will benefit and help to improve the quality of care to our patient. Slide 7 LIFE LONG = You will, if all goes well, still be practicing nursing 30-40 years from now. Imagine how much will change in that time. To compare, it has been 40 years (1967) since the first heart transplant or the first coronary bypass surgery. Would you want a nurse today to be unfamiliar with these procedures because they didnt exist when she was in school? SELF DIRECTED = There will be no syllabus for you to follow. You wont need to know this for an exam. Depending on you interests and the needs of your job, youll need to stay informed about developments in your area, as well as any related disciplines that impact your area. Patients often have co-morbidities! Slide 8 Evidence Based Practice provides you with a strategy for continuing your learning with knowledge relevant specifically to your practice. Slide 9 What are the Knowledge Standard Indicators? An evidence based rationale for all decisions Complex clients may have several comorbidities. What do you do when your patient

with lupus is also diabetic? How does that effect the standard treatment? Where do you go for the answers to these questions and how do you use the resources?

Slide 10 Beyond just searching the resources, you need to critically evaluate the results. Ex. the result of using music to pre op pt. / among elderly pt. does poor sight contributes to the risk of fall. Slide 12 Ensure practice is based in theory and evidence means all practice needs to be reviewed periodically to ensure it meets new knowledge. Assessing the client situation, by using a method such as PICO, which I will go over later. It is a way of formulating questions that aids in structuring your search for evidence. Slide 14 Evidence thought surveys and observations. Appraise considering / assess / judge / evaluate / value the evidence Slide 22 Information must have three attributes to make it useful in daily clinical practice: it must be relevant to everyday practice, it must be correct, and it should require little work to obtain it. Your goal while Navigating the Maze of evidence-based information sources is to remember the "Usefulness of Medical Information Equation" that conceptually relates these three attributes in this manner: Relevance x Validity Work Usefulness importance / pakinabang Relevance relationship with the problem Validity time span / gano kahaba ang pagkuha ng outcome ex. surveys and observations to pt./respondents. Wprk what kind of work do you do surveys, interview, and observation