BARRIERS TO IMPLEMENTING EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES IN CHILDREN HOSPITAL

Abstract

Introduction: Evidence-based practice in nursing (EBP) is a system for clinical practice that coordinates the best accessible logical evidence with nurse's aptitude and the patient's inclinations and qualities to choose about the healthcare of individual patients. Objective: The main objectives of this study were to identify the barriers to implementing evidence-based practices. Study Design: Descriptive comparative research design. Setting, Method: DHQ Sahiwal. A questionnaire was designed to be filled by the nurses working in the hospital. The gathered data was processed and analyzed by SPSS to examine their results and to view. Result: The sample size of this research was 132 nurses working in hospital. The results showed that there is no proper environment for the implementation of evidence-based practices because its time consuming, risky, costly and researched based etc.