Goals Of Evidence Based Practice

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Evidence based practice is the dimension of the process of care that is considered a critical aspect of professional practice. The ultimate goals of evidence based practice are improved patient health status and quality of care (Schmidt & Brown, 2015). There were five steps needed to formulate a research strategy for answering the clinical question. These included developing a clinical question related to the current health issue, searching available evidence related to the question, evaluating the search results, implementing nursing intervention and evaluating the effects of the practice (Nagy, Mills, Waters & Birks, 2010).
The UCOL online library database was utilized to search for relevant literature which included CINAHL, Medline, Health