Evidence based nursing practice ? A review

Evidence based practice, evidence based medicine, evidence based nursing etc. are not new terminology in the recent era. For implementation of evidence based nursing practice, only knowledge is not sufficient among core workers but nursing community must have attitude and intention to practice it by their heart. In current Indian scenario, there are plenty of challenges in integrated evidence based nursing practice. For effective implementation of evidence based nursing practice, a nurse must be able to decide either the evidence is relevant and appropriate for the particular patient or not before its application. All patients must receive safe, effective person centred care, based on the best available evidence is the aim of evidence based nursing and nurses have to play a key role in it.