Week 8-Research and Evidence-Based Practice Using supporting documentation from at least one nursing publication, describe how evidence-based practice is different from research. How would you identify a research project as being an evidence-based intervention project versus the creation of knowledge in a nursing research project?
Week 8-Research and Evidence-Based Practice
Research is primarily conducted to validate existing knowledge or create new knowledge based on a theory. Research often involves systematic scientific inquiry aimed at answering a test hypothesis or a specific question using a rigorous method. Other than investigations, discoveries, and exploration, research also requires a philosophical understanding of scientific principles. Research results can only be validated and considered reliable if the scientific methods used are ordered in sequential steps (Chien, 2019).
Unlike research, evidence-based practice (EBP) is not about generating new ideas and knowledge or validating the already existing knowledge, but rather it is about integrating the best research evidence with nursing clinical experience and patients’ values. Therefore, evidence-based practice translates the research evidence and applies it to clinical decision-making. EBP makes use of the best evidence available to make patient care plans. EBP goes beyond research use as it also consists of clinical expertise, patient values, and preferences. Whereas research is about creating new knowledge and validating existing knowledge, evidence-based practice encompasses invention in terms of finding and deciphering the best research evidence for clinical practice (Chien, 2019).
Globally, it is acknowledged that the best available research evidence should inform the provision of clinical care. Nursing clinical practice should be driven by knowledge and evidence from scholarly articles. To discriminate evidence-based intervention from the creation of knowledge through research, nurses should identify a piece of information that is safe, effective, efficient, and transparent in meeting the patients’ and their families’ expectations as an evidence-based practice. Articles or pieces of information that only aim at creating new knowledge or validating existing knowledge should be considered as research, while those that translate the research evidence into clinical practice should be considered as an evidence-based intervention (Curtis et al., 2017)
References
Chien, L. Y. (2019). Evidence-based practice and nursing research. The Journal of Nursing Research, 27(4), e29. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc6641093/
Curtis, K., Fry, M., Shaban, R. Z., & Considine, J. (2017). Translating research findings to clinical nursing practice. Journal of clinical nursing, 26(5-6), 862-872. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jocn.13586
