EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE: BARRIERS AND IMPLEMENTATION AMONG NURSES OF SERVICES HOSPITAL LAHORE

Abstract

Introduction: On a regular basis researches are refined to produce more advanced and improved medicines, better medical devices and protocols for different procedures. Evidence Based Practice is the implementation of advance and researched based knowledge into practice. Different barriers are identified that effect the implementation of EBP. Methods: An analytical cross-case study was used in this study. Convenient sampling was used for data collection. Sample size was 250 nurses from Services Hospital Lahore. Conduct and Utilization of Research in Nursing (CURN) questionnaire was used for barriers to implement Evidence based practice. Evidence based practice implementation (EBPI) scale was used to check implementation. Data analysis was done by entering the data on SPSS software. Results: High rated barriers that were found in this study were inadequate facilities for implementation of EBP (71.9%), insufficiency of time (55.6%) and the nurse is unaware of the research (53.0%). There was a significant relationship between barriers and implementation of EBP p<0.05. In addition the relationship between components of barriers and implementation of EBP was also assessed. There was no relationship between organization communication, innovation and EBP implementation. There was a significant relationship between adopter and EBP implementation. Conclusions: On the basis of result it is concluded that there is a significant relationship between barrier and implementation of EBP. The high rated barriers investigated were inadequate facilities for implementation of EBP, insufficiency of time and the nurse is unaware of the research. The implementation of EBP among nurses is also very low. Only a few nurses were implementing evidence based practice in their daily practices.