Evidence-based practice (EBP) is the best way to provide high-quality, credible healthcare services for nurses and doctors. There are many online sources of related information, however, now, not all of them are appropriate to use. It is essential to be aware of the relevant resources containing specific evidence-based data related to certain diagnoses/healthcare issues. Moreover, one should be able to evaluate sources of information while conducting research or dealing with a diagnosis. The aim of this paper is to identify the importance of researching the diagnosis, describe the relevant sources/libraries, and analyze the criteria used to evaluate the usefulness of sources.
Dementia is a complex diagnosis that requires elaborative research to diagnose and perform qualitative EBP. It can be the reason for nurses’ uncertainty while working on dementia for the first time, and one may confuse dementia with other similar diagnoses. In this context, the focus is to provide a list of the relevant sources one may use to diagnose and deal with dementia. In addition, it is important to note the best places to conduct research within the nurses’ work settings. Finally, one should identify the best communication strategies to encourage new nurses to effectively research patients’ diagnoses, in this case, dementia.
Communication Strategies to Encourage Diagnosis-Based Research
Communication strategies to encourage the research related to patient diagnosis include those that visualize the benefits of EBP for nurses. Primarily, it involves active listening and identifying verbal and non-verbal cues (Regis College, 2021). In other words, one should focus on the information given by the nurse to respond and give one’s arguments appropriately. In addition, it is essential to maintain non-verbal support of what was said to support one’s point of view. Among the arguments provided to nurses should be those which explain the importance of conducting diagnosis-based research, namely that it is impossible to provide quality healthcare services without EBP.
The strategies to collaborate with the nurses to access resources aims to make the research process easier. These involve defining each team member’s objectives and assigning specific responsibilities and tasks (Mills & Brand, 2017). Certainly, the main task is to provide information to nurses about how one can access the resources within the workplace. Moreover, one should manage nurses’ objectives and time in order to make the research process comfortable and focused. The main specific benefit of strategies in helping the professional competence includes the increase in healthcare services’ quality. It is formulated by the ratio between working environment and service provision’ quality, which is applied to nursing.
The Best Places to Complete the Research
The best place within the work setting to complete research for nurses is the hospital’s online library, which may be accessed in the nurses’ workstations with computers. The Capella University Library, which may be utilized by nurses using computers, contains the relevant information related to EBP, hospital policies, and procedures. It is vital for nurses to have free and easy access to all data sources, which may help one to provide healthcare services (LĂşanaigh, 2017). Types of resources, which nurses should use, includes hospital guidelines and manuals, procedures, policies, and specific data containers related to certain healthcare issue (Dadich & Hosseinzadeh, 2016). The reasons for utilizing the places within the health care setting are mainly constituted by improvement of care service provision. Thus, guidelines and manuals’ research contributes appropriate healthcare procedures, and reason to utilize hospital policy’ databases is formulated by the necessity to be aware of all healthcare-related aspects.
Identification of Five Sources for Evidence of Clinical Diagnosis
The best way to evaluate the credibility and usefulness of sources to use is the checklist approach. The CRAAP test is one of the most widely used checklists developed by librarians at California State University (Hoidn & KlemenÄŤiÄŤ, 2020). This model allows one to evaluate the relevance of resources through five criteria of credibility: relevance, currency, accuracy, authority, and purpose. In this regard, the five sources for evidence would be the PubMed website (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) published by the National Library of Medicine and PubMed Central (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc). Additionally, it is appropriate to use Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice by Ruth Barlett and Elaine Wiersma and Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association by the Alzheimer’s Association. Finally, the Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, also by the Alzheimer’s Association, contains credible information and guidelines to deal with dementia.
Explanation of Why the Sources Provide the Best Evidence
According to the analysis based on the CRAAP model, sources have been ranked on the order of their usefulness. These sources provide the best evidence since they contain relevant, peer-reviewed full-text articles related to the current diagnosis. Moreover, they involve additional data on how to monitor, diagnose, and assess the flow of dementia. Further, one may find methodologies to treat and information about possible negative outcomes and how to deal with them. As was mentioned, the criteria used to determine the relevance of resources is based on the CRAAP model.
Conclusion
Communication and collaboration strategies to encourage nurses to perform EBP are essential since they influence service provision quality. The best places regarding the work settings to complete research are the hospital’s online library and databases on policies, manuals, and guidelines. The searching process for five sources of online information and the criteria used to evaluate them are based on the CRAAP model.
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