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Discuss the model and how it was applied
John Hopkins EBP model was made as a solving-problem approach for making clinical decisions that have tools to guide a practicing nurse to make better-informed decisions. This approach takes into account three steps, practice question, evidence, and translation (PET). This approach uses the best and more recent available experiential and scientific pieces of evidence to help the nurse make, and the patient make informed choices. The model uses external and internal influences on the nursing practice to encourage the best use of individual patient care, system, and patient population.
Moreover, this model would be applied to nursing practice. Asking, acquiring, appraising, applying, and assessing are the standard steps to apply this JHNEBP model. For instance, a nursing leader would consider if the current number of nurses in the facility is enough to the hospital’s capacity. The nursing leaders should further acquire the number of patients and the nurse at the facility to determine the ratio. The nursing leader further estimates the likely burnout of nurses using the figures that have been collected. The nurse leader would then use new scientific approved methods to ensure better service care to patients while taking care of nurses’ interests, such as ratio. Finally, the nursing leader would consider assessing the workability of the model in the organization by highlighting the model’s successes and failures.
Is this model a successful strategy to address the current issue or topic? Why or why not?
This model is best suited to address the issue of staffing ratios and nurse burnout. The model would be successful due to the following reasons. The JHNEBP model uses the current proven scientific methods to realize better results in practice. For instance, the issue of nurse staffing ratio and burnout is the prevailing trend in our health facilities. The JHNEBP model considers the numbers that it observes tries them, and makes the best viable options that would provide better healthcare while taking into consideration the plight of nurses.
Furthermore, the JHNEBP model is focused on minimizing problems while improving care. In this case, the model would be instrumental in solving any nurse staffing and burnout issues while ensuring that nurses deliver top-notch services to the patients. The model would also seek better ratios in the hospital facilities to ensure that nurses are not over-strained in rendering the services.
What are the everyday challenges of implementation of an evidence-based practice model in clinical practice?
Like any other model, the JHNEBP model has its share of challenges to ensure its implementation. First, it takes time to fetch the relevant and useful evidence that would be used in EBP. The availability of evidence is not such an easy process as it requires time and specialized collection to get enough information that will be put into use. Secondly, it has proven difficult for the knowledge already there to be translated into clinical practice. There is a slow adaptation of the new information by both management and the nurses to put it into practice.
What changes or adaptations need to occur to address those?
To address the challenges of implementing the EBP model, the scientific methods, and those that correct relevant information should take care of the time that they use to collect information. The methods should be flexible so that they would collect useful information on a shorter period. For instance, it should quickly analyze the nursing ratios and the likely nurse burnouts in the space of a week or less.
Moreover, the nurses should be trained and equipped to translate the knowledge into their fields of work. The management should also assist; for instance, in the cases of nurse burnout, it would reduce the working time and the nursing ratio, it would seek to employ more to curb the issue.
References
Dang, D., & Dearholt, S. L. (2017). Johns Hopkins nursing evidence-based practice: Model and guidelines. Sigma Theta Tau.
Fiset, V. J., Graham, I. D., & Davies, B. L. (2017). Evidence-based practice in clinical nursing education: a scoping review. Journal of Nursing Education, 56(9), 534-541.