Barriers to the use of evidence-based practice (EBP) include: (Select all that apply.)
a. nurses critiquing research.
b. difficulty communicating how to conduct EBP.
c. the copious amount of literature available.
d. the short time between research and practice.
e. the reluctance of organizations to fund research.
ANS: B, C, E
To adequately integrate EBP into patient care, nurses must critique research to differentiate between opinion and evidence and must regularly read current professional journals. Some barriers are common to research use and EBP, including the difficulty of communicating how to conduct EBP and the individual nurse's skills in determining the quality of research available for review. Another limitation is the reluctance of organizations to fund research and subsequently make potentially costly practice changes based on the best evidence. Because of the copious amount of literature on a specific topic, it is difficult to analyze the literature in an efficient and effective manner. Health care literature with clinically applicable findings is published at a rate that is impossible for individual health care professionals to keep up with. There are delays of approximately 17 years for implementation of clinical research into practice.
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