Identifying barriers to the application of evidence based practice in mental health nursing
Andrea McCloughen
School of Nursing, College of Health and Science, University of Western Sydney, Parramatta Campus, Penrith South NSW
PP: 226 - 230
Abstract
Although contemporary nursing literature urges clinicians to embrace the principles of evidence-based practice and utilise research to guide professional activity, this challenge has frequently gone unheeded by mental health nurses. Indeed the reality of merging research and practice is a complex process impeded by significant barriers.
Examination of these barriers provides credible reason for mental health nurses' slow progress toward evidence-based nursing practice to date. However, exploration of these barriers also leads to the identification of strategies to overcome them, inevitably rendering the current situation untenable.
Keywords
evidence based practice; mental health; nursing
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