Author Question: A leadership team is planning an evidence-based practice (EBP) initiative that will address the ... (Read 117 times)

dbose · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

A leadership team is planning an evidence-based practice (EBP) initiative that will address the policies and protocols around wound care. Which of the following developments in the implementation may be construed as unethical?

A) Evidence-based treatments may be a benefit to some patients' healing but exacerbate others.
B) The implementation of evidence-based wound care may be impractical from a staffing perspective.
C) The clinical practice guidelines that form the basis of the practice change may have been developed at a different site.
D) Clinicians may find that existing routines around wound care are difficult to change.

Question 2

There is an apparent lack of familiarity and application of evidence-based practice on a geriatric, subacute medicine unit. Which of the following principles should guide the nurse educator's efforts to change this situation?

A) The outcomes of traditional practice should be quantified in order to determine if EBP is necessary.
B) Efforts to teach the EBP paradigm should be focused on the younger nurses and recent graduates.
C) Funding sources must be secured prior to beginning a change initiative.
D) It is important to plan a strategy for creating buy-in among the nursing staff.