Promotion of evidence‐based practice by professional nursing associations: literature review

Abstract

Professional nurses' associations are active in promoting evidence-based practice among their nurse members, but only those focusing on changing competences and attitude by addressing intrinsic motivation are well used. Other types of activities deserve to be explored, including behaviour-oriented approaches, approaches using structural, social or financial influence measures and perhaps methods based on 'involuntary involvement'.

Clinician Perspectives on Treating Adolescents with Co-occurring Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Substance Use, and Other Problems

“…While the recruitment approach allowed us to target clinicians’ reportedly engaged in treating adolescents with PTSD+SUD, responses should not be considered representative of all frontline practitioners working with adolescents with PTSD+SUD. Specifically, some evidence suggests (Foa, Gillihan, & Bryant, 2013; Holleman, Eliens, van Vliet, & van Achterberg, 2006) that members of professional societies, like those used for recruitment in the current study, are more likely to seek out training in and use of evidence-based treatments in practice. Relatedly, relative to similar provider survey studies (Back et al, 2009), the current sample size is small.…”

Priority setting and policy advocacy by nursing associations: A scoping review and implications using a socio-ecological whole systems lens

“…Members were also viewed as critical to the work accomplished by organizations, as they served as champions for their organizations' cause(s) [48,82,94]. Low levels of member participation partly explained limited involvement of organizations in policy issues [26,50,51,84,95]. Clearly communicating an evidence-based policy position that could be easily understood [48], providing education and tools [24,91], and strategically selecting members for key decisionmaking positions and responsibilities [27] built capacity for enhanced policy efforts by members.…”

Role of Research in Best Practices

“…These organizations provide numerous opportunities that may provide nurses with 69 Guidelines for clinical practice Evidence-based protocols Patient safety initiatives Algorithms for patient management Networking opportunities Continuing education opportunities Resources for career development Scholarships and grants Active involvement in professional organizations allows nurses to be engaged in shared governance and decision making processes that affect practice standards and issues of concern to the profession in general and affect specific areas of nursing care management in particular. 70 Nurses have the opportunity to engage in review of standards and offer suggestions and opinions. They further engage in activities that affect governing of the organization through elections and voting.…”