1. Define evidence based practice….. (EBP) IS a problem sovling approach to clinial practice that integrate the conscientious use of best use of best evidence in combination whith a clinician

2. Identify the five steps of evidence based practice…..

A) Ask clinical Questions

B) Collect the most relevant and best evidence

C) Critically appraise the evidcne you gather

D) integrate all evidence with ones clinical expertise and client preference and vlaunes in making pracivce decision or change.

E) Evaluate the practice decision or change.

3. Identify the four elements of a PICO question.

a) P. Patient population of interest, Identify patients by age, gender ethnicity and disease or heath problem/

b) I…. intervention of interest. what is thtthe intervention thta is worth while to use in practice(eg a treatment diagnostic test, prognostic factor.

c) Comparison of interest …. what is the usual standard of care or current intervention used now in practice.

d) Outcome…. waht result do you wish to achieve or observe as a result of an intervention (eg. change in clinet behavior pysical fining, clinet perception

4. Identify the sources where you can find the evidence.=—- many medical databases such as ahrq, cinahl, medline, embase, psycinfo, cochrane databse of systemtic reviews, national guidelines clearning house, pubmed, online journalo kowledge synstheis for nursing.

5. a peer reviewd article is a : Panel of experts familar with articles tpic or subjects matter has reviewd the article.

6. what are the clinical guidlines? systematically developed statement about a plan of care for a specifc set of clinical circumstances involvig a psecifc clinet population. Example a clinincal guideline on NCG include care of children and docelencent with type1 diabetes and practice guideline for treatment of adults with lower back pain.

7. explain why there may be a bias in how studies are conducted.

critiquing the evidence:

Briefly explain the following elemnts of evidence-based articles that will need to be critiqued

8. Abstract: a brief summary of the article that quicly tells ou if the article is research or clinically based. an abstract summarize the purpose of the study or clinical query.

9: introduction: the introduction contains information about the purpose and importance of the topic ofr audience who reads the aritcle. There is usually brieff supporting evidence as to why the topic is important form the authors point of view.

10: literature Review

11. Manuscript narrative

a) clinical studies

b) research studies

12. Results:

a) clinial studies

b) research studies

13. implications:

14: explain how you can integrate the evidence.

Nursing research

15. Define nursing research

16. define outcomes research

Scientific method

17. Define

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