Letter to the Editor: Evidence-based practice for nursing profession: Barriers and teaching strategies solutions

• 作者: Alexius Andiwatir Yasinta Betan
• 来源期刊: 国际护理科学（英文）
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（1）
• 页码范围: 123-124
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Dear Editor, We have read the article entitled "Improve nursing in evidencebased practice: How Chinese nurses' read and comprehend scientific literature" by Huang et al.[1] published in the International Journal of Nursing Sciences.We would like to appreciate and strongly support the authors' efforts in pointing out the importance of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in nursing.Nurses are required to adhere to accepted standards of practice and professional performance.As a professional, nurses need to use evidence-based intervention and the integration of research findings into practice [2,3].EBP is an approach to nursing care that is very important for improving patient outcomes [4], however, the previous studies have been suggested that health professional does not always use the evidence to guide their practice [1,5-7].Huang et al.state that only 3.5％ of nurses read literature regularly on a daily, 9.8％ on a weekly, 9.3％ on a monthly and 66％ only read when needed [1].Further, O'lynn et al.also state that "in terms of actual use of research findings in practice, small range of nurses (27.1％) reported using research "often" or "very often" in the past year;whereas 30.0％ reported using research "rarely" or "never" in the past year" [6].