Preventing Heart Disease in Women by Promoting Awareness Through Evidence Based Practice

Preventing Heart Disease in Women by Promoting Awareness through Evidence-Based Practice
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August 12, 2016
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In clinical diagnosis, an evidenced-based approach is gaining its momentum in treatment-planning and healthcare research, since traditional research-based diagnoses are mostly used for “developing new knowledge and validating existing knowledge” (Carnwell, 2001). Evidence-based research, on the other hand, is primarily employed by clinical practitioners in nursing and healthcare to use any existing knowledge in making decisions (Carnwell, 2001). Also, EBP, unlike its predecessors, does not primarily aim to find evidence and fill in the gaps in existing literature, but it employs the best resources already existing out there as of the moment and makes decisions b...