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This guide has been created to support the Nurse Residency Program at Bryan Medical Center.

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What is Evidence-Based Nursing?

There are three key components of evidence-based practice (EBP):

  • Clinical expertise
  • Best research evidence
  • Patient values and preferences

Venn diagram showing how the three concepts described above overlap to create EBP.

Image Source: Duke University Medical Center Library (2020). Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice.  

Some definitions of Evidence-Based Nursing Practice from the literature:

  • Ingersoll (2000): "The conscientious, explicit and judicious use of theory-derived, research-based information in making decisions about care delivery to individuals or groups of patients and in consideration of individual needs and preferences." Access the full article from Nursing Outlook.
     
  • Scott and McSherry (2009): "An ongoing process by which evidence, nursing theory and the practitioners’ clinical expertise are critically evaluated and considered, in conjunction with patient involvement, to provide delivery of optimum nursing care for the individual." Access the full article from Journal of Clinical Nursing.

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