The research design was based on Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt’s Advancing Research & Clinical Practice through Close Collaboration model as the first step.Ī descriptive and cross-sectional design was conducted and a convenience sample of 521 full-time registered nurses from an 849-bed tertiary hospital were included. This study was conducted at a university-affiliated tertiary hospital located in a provincial area in Korea. This study aimed to identify clinical nurses’ evidence-based practice (EBP) knowledge, beliefs, organizational readiness, and EBP implementation levels, and to determine the factors that affect EBP implementation in order to successfully establish EBP. Faculty in prelicensure and graduate programs should integrate EBP into their curricula and assess students' EBP competencies. Leaders must also create practice environments where EBP is valued, and barriers to EBP implementation are eliminated. Therefore, individual nurses must reflect on their EBP competence level and pursue opportunities to develop these essential attributes. Medical-surgical nurses need support at the personal and organizational levels to improve their EBP competence and increase uptake of EBP in their practice. Also, nurses educated at the master's level or higher had better EBP competency scores (p <.
006) reported greater EBP competency scores. Medical-surgical nurses working in units or organizations that had a special designation such as Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses Premier Recognition in the Specialty of Med-Surg (AMSN PRISM p =. However, they rated themselves competent in only 2 EBP competencies of 24. The findings revealed that medical-surgical nurses had positive beliefs about EBP. The purpose of this study was to describe medical-surgical nurses' self-reported EBP beliefs and competencies.Ī descriptive, cross-sectional design employing survey methodology was used.Ī total of 1,709 medical-surgical nurses participated for a response rate of 13%. Although medical-surgical nurses were included in studies examining cross-sections of the nursing workforce, no studies exist specifically investigating their EBP beliefs and EBP competencies.
The literature shows that nurses highly value the use of EBP, however, they lack necessary EBP competencies. The lack of evidence-based practice (EBP) knowledge and inability to implement EBP among nurses is a major barrier to quality nursing care.
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