Evidence based practice in nursing: A review

Abstract

Evidence based practice in nursing is an approach to making quality decisions and providing nursing care based upon personal clinical expertise in combination with the most current, relevant research. This article provides a review of various definitions and research studies related to evidence based practice in nursing. Nursing practitioners and students need to know about the evidence based practice in order to provide effective nursing care and to improve the patient outcomes. Various research studies have been shown that knowledge and practice related to evidence based practice among the nurses can be helpful in current nursing practice to improve the quality of nursing care.