Eight Steps for Successful Change: Your Personal Example

Evidence-based Change
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Evidence-Based Change
Evidence-based practice can be put down as an approach towards solving issues which incorporates the use of current evidence which is reliable towards coming up with the best decisions which are concerning patient care. Evidence-based practice also includes well organized methodological search for the most appropriate evidence as well as fault finding evaluation of this evidence in order to arrive to the solution of clinical question (Crystal, 2007). Therefore evidence-based practice looks to address the issues regarding the clinicians’ and doctors’ skills also not forgetting the values of the patient and desire. Through the use of evidence based practice various health institutions have been able to undergo rigorous changes in their way of doing their daily activities.
In order to come up to a decision to put into practice evidence based change, initially a research is conducted for one to get the evidence. For instance, a research was undertaken by the American college of emergency physicians on how to handle the challenge of hospital crowding, where this had become a great menace nationwide (Brenda, 2011). The change which was availed involved establishing a system understanding whereby the patients undergo a process known as Triage also it can be referred to as process of sorting the patients according to those who require immediate medical attention and those who do not. This has greatly contributed towards the reduction of overcrowding in hospital emergency response units, such that outpatient testing is done quickly and the patients are released while those requiring attention are sent to the emergency department.
One of the barriers to the change was the legal issue. And to overcome this barrier the practitioner is required to do many tests in order to be able to identify the correct diagnosis. Evidence-based practice is very important becau...