Post a description of the healthcare organization website you reviewed. Describe where, if at all, EBP appears (e.g., the mission, vision, philosophy, and/or goals of the healthcare organization, or in other locations on the website).
Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters
Evidence-based practice leads to high quality care and the best patient outcomes (Melnyk and Overholt, 2018). An organization that represents an evidence-based model is the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters. This organization is grounded on evidence-based approaches from the hospital’s policies and procedures, treatment options, and pediatric residency programs. An organizational culture can be transformed through evidence-based practice education and mentorship from evidence-based practice knowledge and skills (Crabtree et al., 2016).
The Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters new mental health hospital and outpatient center called, Children’s Pavilion, recently opened September 30, 2022. This new state of the art children’s mental hospital provides a wide variety of evidence-based mental health treatment options. The Children’s Pavilion website provided thorough information about the facility and stated various evidence-based approaches the hospital uses.
The organization stated the Children’s Pavilion is the nation’s top pediatric mental health hospitals for its patient and family-centered design, evidence-based treatments, academic training program, and clinical research to guide innovation (CHKD, 2022). When describing each department on the hospital’s website, the organization elaborated on evidence-based practices that are used. For example, the psychiatric care in the outpatient setting delivered by Psychiatrists and Nurse Practitioners is based off a biopsychosocial diagnostic model that is evidenced-based, patient-centered, and family-focused (CHKD, 2018). When talking about the acute inpatient mental health department the organization stated the hospital uses evidence-based and proactive treatment approaches for patient safety (CHKD, 2022). The Intensive Outpatient Program uses a dialectical behavioral therapy evidence-based curriculum (CHKD, 2022).
This organization has a positive reputation when it comes to patient experience and patient outcomes within the community but researching the organization website was even more reassuring of their excellent quality of care. By the organization describing evidence-based practice interventions on the website confirmed why they have such great patient outcomes. As a Behavioral Health Navigator in the Emergency Department, I come across patients and families looking for resources to help their loved one. I’m glad Children’s Pavilion has opened to better serve the children in the region.
References
Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters (CHKD). (2022). https://www.chkd.orgLinks to an external site.
Crabtree, E., Brennan, E., Davis, A., & Coyle, A. (2016). Improving patient care through nursing
engagement in evidence-based practice. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 13(2),
172– 175. doi:10.1111/wvn.12126
Melnyk, B. M., & Fineout-Overholt, E. (2018). Evidence-based practice in nursing & healthcare:
A guide to best practice (4th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.