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Nurses' Attitudes to Evidence-based Practice: Impact of a National Policy.

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Upton, Dominic and Upton, Penney (2005) Nurses' Attitudes to Evidence-based Practice: Impact of a National Policy. British Journal of Nursing, 14 (5). pp. 284-288. ISSN 0966-0461

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Clinical effectiveness and evidence-based practice should be key cornerstones of current nursing practice. This study used postal questionnaires to explore the impact of a national initiative on nurses' attitudes, knowledge and practice relating to these twin concepts. Results indicated that attitudes can be influenced by national policy initiatives. Influencing behaviour, however, appears to be more difficult; no change was seen in reported application of evidence-based practice. Nurses did, however, report a desire to increase their implementation of evidence-based practice; reasons for not doing so included lack of the necessary skills and time in the working day. It is recommended that these education and training needs must be addressed by allocating sufficient protected learning time and funds. A more difficult issue relates to the burden of clinical work, which may also be preventing greater uptake of evidence-based practice.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	The original publication is available at www.internurse.com
Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords:	evidence-based practice, staff attitudes, nursing practice
Subjects:	R Medicine > RT Nursing
Divisions:	College of Business, Psychology and Sport > School of Psychology
Related URLs:	Publisher
Depositing User:	Janet Davidson
Date Deposited:	13 Dec 2007 08:42
Last Modified:	17 Jun 2020 16:49
URI:	https://worc-9.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/253

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