Question

Explain how research has evolved since the Florence Nightingale era.

Discuss how research and EBP are different; include how you believe research supports EBP for nursing.

Answer 1

Answer: The research has provided platform for the nursing as well as healthcare professionals to provide quality of care tot he patient. The evidence based practices that have been started as well as the nursing theories and model which make the nurses to follow the guidelines. Many of the research and theories have resulted in a positive outcome in the treatment of the patients.

The research is carried out which may have positive or negative outcomes whereas the evidence based practice involves those methods that are being already resulted in to positive outcomes for the particular patient condition. These on going research on different topics, diseases, treatment helps to find out the major cause and issues related to diseases and hence enables us to follow these steps to provide wualqua of care to the patients.