Anaman-Torgbor Judith A, Nyande Felix K, Amenuke Margaret, Gyapong Bernice, Dodunoo Dzifa, Tarkang Elvis
School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana.
School of Nursing, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.
SAGE Open Nurs. 2022 Mar 29;8:23779608221088252. doi: 10.1177/23779608221088252. eCollection 2022 Jan-Dec.
The nursing profession in the 21st century requires service delivery in a highly specialized nursing environment with a high degree of professionalism and optimum patient outcome. Evidence-Based Nursing Practice (EBP) may provide a great opportunity for moving nursing care to a level that may involve clinical reasoning to meet demand in the 21st century and beyond, improve patient outcome and cost containment.
To investigate evidence-based nursing practice among nurses in Ghana.
This is a descriptive cross-sectional survey and data was collected among clinical nurses and nurse educators from both private and public institutions across Ghana. Nurses were included if they have full-time or part-time appointment; were in active service and have a valid Personal Identification Number (PIN) from the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana.
About half of the nurses disagreed or were neutral regarding formulation of answerable research questions and 40% do not critically track relevant scientific evidence. Also, more than 30% of the nurses disagreed or were neutral regarding the integration of scientific evidence into practice. Clinical nurses were about 2.1 times more likely to have difficulty determining the applicability of research findings in service delivery compared to nurse educators.
The findings suggest EBP uptake and integration is suboptimal in Ghana.
21世纪的护理专业需要在高度专业化的护理环境中提供服务，具备高度的专业素养并实现最佳的患者治疗效果。循证护理实践（EBP）可能为将护理提升至一个新水平提供绝佳机会，这一水平可能涉及临床推理，以满足21世纪及以后的需求，改善患者治疗效果并控制成本。
调查加纳护士的循证护理实践情况。
这是一项描述性横断面调查，在加纳公私机构的临床护士和护士教育工作者中收集数据。纳入的护士需为全职或兼职任用；在职且拥有加纳护士与助产士理事会颁发的有效个人识别号码（PIN）。
约半数护士对提出可解答的研究问题持不同意或中立态度，40%的护士未严格追踪相关科学证据。此外，超过30%的护士对将科学证据整合到实践中持不同意或中立态度。与护士教育工作者相比，临床护士在确定研究结果在服务提供中的适用性方面遇到困难的可能性约为其2.1倍。
研究结果表明，加纳在循证护理实践的采用和整合方面情况欠佳。
