NURS 6052 WHERE IN THE WORLD IS EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE?

The professional healthcare organization I selected is the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA). The ENA works worldwide with emergency care providers to overcome challenges and improve emergency care (ENA, 2021). Working in a pediatric emergency room and being a part of our unit based counsel, I look forward to seeing and utilizing the ENA’s yearly innovations. Our emergency department has even won the Lantern Award from the ENA for incorporating evidence based practice into our care. The fact that ENA awards this Lantern Award to organizations is a great illustration of their appreciation and utilization of EBP in their association. “Evidence based practice optimizes healthcare performance by helping reach the quadruple aim of improved population health, enhanced patient experience, lower healthcare costs, and improved life of healthcare providers” (Laureate Education (Producer), 2018). With goals like this, why wouldn’t a professional organization want to use EBP? 

When analyzing the ENA website, it is clear that EBP is utilized frequently and is well valued to this organization. EBP is included in the associations mission “to advance excellence in emergency nursing (ENA, 2021), their multiple beliefs, their educational courses offered to nurses to strengthen their knowledge, their publications including nursing research, and their support of organizations who use EBP through their lantern award. The ENA even publishes a Journal of Emergency Nursing focusing on evidence based emergency nursing research. Frontline nurses have the opportunity to use resources, such as ENA education, to apply EBP to their care, and evaluate its effect in their institution (Crabtree et al., 2016). All of these showcase that the Emergency Nurses Association is grounded on Evidence Based Practice.  After examining all of the information on the ENAs website, my perception of this association has not changed. ENA makes it well known their appreciation and use of EBP in their organization to all who follow them. They encourage all members and emergency  organizations worldwide to work together and do the same. Reading their website just further supported the importance of evidence based practice to the Emergency Nurses Association. 

Resources 

Crabtree, E. Brenna, E. Davis, A. & Coyle, A. (2016). Improving patient care through nursing         engagement in evidence-based practice. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 13(2),    172-175. doi:10.1111/wvn.12126