March 21, 2010, was not EBP’s date of birth, but it may be the date the approach “grew up” and left home to take on the world. When the Affordable Care Act was passed, it came with a requirement of empirical evidence. Research on EBP increased significantly. Application of EBP spread to allied health professions, education, healthcare technology, and more. Health organizations began to adopt and promote EBP. In this Discussion, you will consider this adoption. You will examine healthcare organization websites and analyze to what extent these organizations use EBP. To Prepare: Review the Resources and reflect on the definition and goal of EBP. Choose a professional healthcare organization’s website (e.g., a reimbursing body, an accredited body, or a national initiative). Explore the website to determine where and to what extent EBP is evident. By Day 3 of Week 1 Post a description of the healthcare organization website you reviewed. Describe where, if at all, EBP appears (e.g., the mission, vision, philosophy, and/or goals of the healthcare organization, or in other locations on the website). Then, explain whether this healthcare organization’s work is grounded in EBP and why or why not. Finally, explain whether the information you discovered on the healthcare organization’s website has changed your perception of the healthcare organization. Be specific and provide examples. By Day 6 of Week 1 Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days by visiting the websites they shared and offering additional examples of EBP or alternative views/interpretations to those shared in your colleagues’ posts. Click on the Reply button below to reveal the textbox for entering your message. Then click on the Submit button to post your message. Will be adding two discussions that will need at least three references all in APA 7 format each. The mail discussion will need at least 3 references and also in APA 7 format. Micheals  discussion Evidence based practice presents with summation of ideas, experiences, coupled with literature centered around dedicated man power and hours of work both in the clinical and or research setting which could span for a number of years based on the mission and or vision of the facility working on a certain intervention to bring about global change in the dynamics of either how healthcare is delivered, managed and or improved. Following from a careful perusing of the medical university of South Carolina, the institution presents with a healthcare setting centered on the need to achieve excellence through innovative implementation of quality assurance, patient centered care based on improved clinical practices based on improvements and incorporation of new data on evidence based practices. According to Crabtree et al., (2016, p172) “The MUSC Center for Evidence-Based Practice (EBP), housed jointly in the Library and the Quality Management department of the MUSC Hospital, aims to promote sc.

1. March 21, 2010, was not EBP’s date of birth, but it may be the
date the approach “grew up” and left home to take on the world.
When the Affordable Care Act was passed, it came with a
requirement of empirical evidence. Research on EBP increased
significantly. Application of EBP spread to allied health
professions, education, healthcare technology, and more. Health
organizations began to adopt and promote EBP.
In this Discussion, you will consider this adoption. You will
examine healthcare organization websites and analyze to what
extent these organizations use EBP.
To Prepare:
Review the Resources and reflect on the definition and goal of
EBP.
Choose a professional healthcare organization’s website (e.g., a
reimbursing body, an accredited body, or a national initiative).
Explore the website to determine where and to what extent EBP
is evident.
By Day 3 of Week 1
Post
a description of the healthcare organization website you
reviewed. Describe where, if at all, EBP appears (e.g., the
mission, vision, philosophy, and/or goals of the healthcare
organization, or in other locations on the website). Then,
explain whether this healthcare organization’s work is grounded
in EBP and why or why not. Finally, explain whether the

2. information you discovered on the healthcare organization’s
website has changed your perception of the healthcare
organization. Be specific and provide examples.
By Day 6 of Week 1
Respond
to at least
two
of your colleagues
on two different days
by visiting the websites they shared and offering additional
examples of EBP or alternative views/interpretations to those
shared in your colleagues’ posts.
Click on the
Reply
button below to reveal the textbox for entering your message.
Then click on the
Submit
button to post your message.
Will be adding two discussions that will need at least three
references all in APA 7 format each.
The mail discussion will need at least 3 references and also in
APA 7 format.
Micheals discussion
Evidence based practice presents with summation of ideas,
experiences, coupled with literature centered around dedicated
man power and hours of work both in the clinical and or
research setting which could span for a number of years based
on the mission and or vision of the facility working on a certain
intervention to bring about global change in the dynamics of

3. either how healthcare is delivered, managed and or improved.
Following from a careful perusing of the medical university of
South Carolina, the institution presents with a healthcare setting
centered on the need to achieve excellence through innovative
implementation of quality assurance, patient centered care
based on improved clinical practices based on improvements
and incorporation of new data on evidence based practices.
According to Crabtree et al., (2016, p172) “The MUSC Center
for Evidence-Based Practice (EBP), housed jointly in the
Library and the Quality Management department of the MUSC
Hospital, aims to promote scientific inquiry, EBP, and quality
outcomes at MUSC. Through education, the development of
evidence-based clinical decision support tools and outcomes
research, the Center for EBP has begun to transform the culture
of MUSC into one that incorporates best evidence into clinical
practice on both an individual and system level”.
Following from the presentation as rendered by Crabtree et
al., (2016, p172) “The EBP Nurse Scholars course provides
nurses with a comprehensive overview of EBP, prepares them to
frame clinical questions, perform literature searches, analyze
and evaluate evidence, and translate that knowledge into
something clinically meaningful… Pre- and post-course surveys
demonstrated that the course improved nurses’ confidence with
EBP methods and skills related to research tools, statistical
concepts, and study designs. Data collected included responses
from students from two EBP Nurse Scholars courses: Spring
2013 and Spring 2014”. The literature speaks to the mission,
vision and philosophy of evidence based practice while also
bearing in mind the goal of this organization in making their
nurses frontiers in the quest and search for results that correlate
with caring for patients with evidence based information at the
top of their list.
Based on the careful scrutiny and analysis of the
recommended resource list, I would be made to understand that

4. the organizations priority and goals centered on the need to
show case, while also embracing the innovations of evidence
based practices, and its contribution to the healthcare sector. “A
regional, collaborative EBP fellowship program, the EBP
Institute, was founded in 2006 by nurse leaders from multiple
hospitals and academia in San Diego County, California, to
promote implementation of EBP by hospital nurses. The
fellowship program utilized institution-matched mentors to
assist in executing unit-based EBP projects, and included
didactic as well as interactive learning experiences in six
daylong educational sessions over a 9-month period.” (Kim et
al., 2016, p340)
Following from some of the literature on the resource
reading list and some of the organizations mode of operation in
terms of their mission, philosophy and vision as set forth by
their quest for in depth knowledge on evidence based practices
and some of their acquired results individually and collectively,
I would say I am convinced evidence based practice is worth the
time, attention and resources utilized in sustaining researches,
grooming future innovators, while also honing in on how to
better incorporate evidence based practices into most if not all
aspects of healthcare. An example of evidence based practice at
work would be the change that was incorporated to the new
ways of following through with CPR which formally was
accessing a patients airway, breathing and circulation (ABC),
but now following from innovative results backed by evidence
based practice, the new order of CPR is circulation, airway and
breathing (CAB). According to Melnyk (2018, p29) “It is time
for practitioners from all healthcare professions to embrace EBP
and quickly move from practices steeped in tradition or based
on outdated policies to those supported by sound evidence form
well designed studies.”
References

5. Crabtree, E., Brennan, 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. https://doi-
org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1111/wvn.12126
Kim, S. C., Stichler, J. F., Ecoff, L., Brown, C. E., Gallo, A., &
Davidson, J. E. (2016). Predictors of Evidence-Based Practice
Implementation, Job Satisfaction, and Group Cohesion Among
Regional Fellowship Program Participants. Worldviews on
Evidence-Based Nursing, 13(5), 340–348. https://doi-
org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1111/wvn.12171
Melnyk, B. M., & Fineout-Overholt, E. (2018). Evidence-based
practice in nursing & healthcare: A guide to best practice (4th
ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
Deannas discussion
The healthcare organization website I reviewed is the American
Psychiatric Nurse Association (APNA). This organization is the
largest membership organization that focuses on different
aspects of mental health. For example, they focus on wellness,
prevention, and treatment for mental health disorders (APNA,
n.d.). As I look for evidence-based practice (EBP) on this
website, it is spread out through their vision, structure,
collegiality, and continuing education. According to Melnyk
and Fineout-Overholt (2018), “EBP enhances healthcare quality,
improves patient outcomes, reduces costs, and empowers
clinicians”.
The work is grounded in EBP. In the vision statement, they
promote EBP advances. In their structure, APNA shares
research via online, conference calls, and through chapter

6. meetings. APNA believes this is a way to distribute standards
quickly and can reach a wide audience. With collegiality, APNA
disperses state of the art information through the website and
other modalities that are available to their members only.
Lastly, APNA uses continuing education that provides the most
current information in mental health research and practices
(APNA, n.d.).
The information I discovered change my perception of the
organization. I did not know very much about the organization,
but after looking into it, I have a better appreciation for what
they offer psychiatric nurses and providers who work in this
field. I like the idea of conferences that provide continuing
education and current information. APNA provides in-person
education and online education (APNA, n.d.). It is important to
belong to some type of professional organization and one that is
specific to your field because they help promote policy and
practice. They also provide career growth, networking, and
education (Nichols, 2020).
References
American Psychiatric Nurses Association. (n.d.).
About the American psychiatric nurses association: An
introduction.
Retrieved December 1, 2020, from
https://www.apna.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3277
Melnyk, B. M., & Fineout-Overholt, E. (2018).
Evidence-based practice in nursing & healthcare: A guide to
best practice
(4th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
Nichols, J. (2020, September 2020).
10 benefits of joining professional nursing organizations and
associations.

7. Retrieved December 1, 2020, from
https://nurseslabs.com/10-benefits-joining-professional-nursing-
organizations-associations/