Explain the importance of a spirit of inquiry in an evidence-based culture and what you can do as an advanced registered nurse to encourage this within your practice or organization. In response to your peers, compare the role and implementation of EBP in your specialty area with another advanced registered nurse specialty.

Explain the importance of a spirit of inquiry in an evidence-based culture and what you can do as an advanced registered nurse to encourage this within your practice or organization. In response to your peers, compare the role and implementation of EBP in your specialty area with another advanced registered nurse specialty.

Explain the importance of a spirit of inquiry in an evidence-based culture and what you can do as an advanced registered nurse to encourage this within your practice or organization. In response to your peers, compare the role and implementation of EBP in your specialty area with another advanced registered nurse specialty.

DQ 2: A Spirit of Inquiry

Healthcare professionals work in diverse settings with varying needs, cultures, and professional obligations. Despite these differences, the desire to achieve high-quality care is universal. A spirit of inquiry is the foundation of evidence-based practice (EBP), which helps healthcare organizations to improve care outcomes continually. A spirit of inquiry is important in an evidence-based culture since it makes healthcare practitioners curious about better processes, achieved by integrating scientific evidence into practice. Migliore et al. (2020) underlined the importance of cultivating a spirit of inquiry in patient care as step zero of evidence-based practice. Such a spirit encourages nurses to ask relevant clinical questions and address health problems creatively.

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As an advanced registered nurse, I can use several strategies to encourage a spirit of inquiry within my organization. The first step is to serve as a change agent. As change agents, nurses identify and address practice gaps through evidence-based interventions (Rafferty, 2018). The commitment to promoting positive change can only be achieved with a spirit of inquiry. The second step to support such a spirit is to ask pertinent questions regarding practice gaps. These questions are directed to the organization’s management to inspire it to participate in practice change. The other strategy is the desire to improve clinical outcomes. A spirit of inquiry exists when nurses collaborate to address clinical problems through clinical reasoning and judgment (Wyant, 2018). Overall, a spirit of inquiry thrives when there is a desire to improve clinical outcomes.

Irrespective of the specialty, the role and the implementation process of EBP do not change. Generally, EBP is the key to achieving better healthcare quality and patient outcomes (Chien, 2019). Clinicians achieve this goal by combining scientific evidence with clinical expertise and patient preferences to optimize health outcomes. EBP implementation starts with asking a question the finding information (scientific evidence) to answer it. Next, the evidence is critically appraised before being integrated with clinical expertise and the patient’s values.

References

Chien, L. Y. (2019). Evidence-based practice and nursing research. The Journal of Nursing Research: JNR, 27(4), e29. https://doi.org/10.1097/jnr.0000000000000346

Migliore, L., Chouinard, H., & Woodlee, R. (2020). Clinical research and practice collaborative: An evidence-based nursing clinical inquiry expansion. Military Medicine, 185(Supplement_2), 35-42. https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usz447

Rafferty, A. M. (2018). Nurses as change agents for a better future in health care: the politics of drift and dilution. Health Economics, Policy and Law, 13(3-4), 475-491. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744133117000482

Wyant, T. (2018). A spirit of inquiry leads to evidence-based answers to practice questions. ONSVOICE. https://voice.ons.org/news-and-views/a-spirit-of-inquiry-leads-to-evidence-based-answers-to-practice-questions

DQ 2

Assessment Description

Explain the importance of a “spirit of inquiry” in an evidence-based culture and what you can do as an advanced registered nurse to encourage this within your practice or organization. In response to your peers, compare the role and implementation of EBP in your specialty area with another advanced registered nurse specialty.