Step 5: Evaluate Performance and Outcome
Although you have completed the challenges of writing a question, acquiring, appraising, and applying the evidence you have one more step to complete. This step is equally important as the others and involves following up with how successful the evidence was in client outcomes and satisfaction. Was the evidence effective and efficient for your client and in your practice? Did the outcome result in improvements in the client’s daily living? How will this information change your practice? Additionally, this step includes self-reflection about your performance during the EBP process. Through self-evaluation you will have the opportunity to learn about your clinical decision-making skills and perhaps find areas where you would like to gain more knowledge.
There are many EBP barriers identified by Law, MacDermid, and Telford (2008)[15]. These barriers include not having enough time, quality of evidence scarcity, lack of accessibility to computers and peer-reviewed journals, and limited knowledge about EBP and how to go about it to name just a few (p. 210).
In Step 5, evaluating performance is related to knowing your barriers. Can you relate to any of the above-mentioned barriers? Identify these barriers. Identifying reasons why it is personally difficult to participate in EBP may lead to developing strategies to counter these barriers. Do you have strategy solutions in mind? Please read further at British Medical Journal link [55] for possible solutions Check out articles that may provide solutions related to your barriers in the Resources Evaluate Performance and Outcome page.
Share your barriers and problem solving ideas for strategy solutions to EBP on our Facebook Page
Although you have completed the challenges of writing a question, acquiring, appraising, and applying the evidence you have one more step to complete. This step is equally important as the others and involves following up with how successful the evidence was in client outcomes and satisfaction. Was the evidence effective and efficient for your client and in your practice? Did the outcome result in improvements in the client’s daily living? How will this information change your practice? Additionally, this step includes self-reflection about your performance during the EBP process. Through self-evaluation you will have the opportunity to learn about your clinical decision-making skills and perhaps find areas where you would like to gain more knowledge.
There are many EBP barriers identified by Law, MacDermid, and Telford (2008)[15]. These barriers include not having enough time, quality of evidence scarcity, lack of accessibility to computers and peer-reviewed journals, and limited knowledge about EBP and how to go about it to name just a few (p. 210).
In Step 5, evaluating performance is related to knowing your barriers. Can you relate to any of the above-mentioned barriers? Identify these barriers. Identifying reasons why it is personally difficult to participate in EBP may lead to developing strategies to counter these barriers. Do you have strategy solutions in mind? Please read further at British Medical Journal link [55] for possible solutions Check out articles that may provide solutions related to your barriers in the Resources Evaluate Performance and Outcome page.
Share your barriers and problem solving ideas for strategy solutions to EBP on our Facebook Page