Implementing Evidence-Based Practices in Hospitals: A Narrative Review of Implementer Roles and Project Attributes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence-based nursing leads to improved care quality and patient outcomes; however, challenges with implementation prevent that from being achieved. In hospitals, nurses are well positioned across multiple organizational levels to influence the adoption of evidence-based practices (EBP). A better understanding of the roles of those who are serving as implementers of EBP changes in the hospital is needed.

Purpose

This narrative review sought to answer: In hospitals, who (i.e., what roles) are the implementers of nursing-related EBP changes and what are the attributes of those EBP projects? This review aimed to describe (1) the roles and the organizational level of those implementing EBP changes in the hospital for nurses and (2) the attributes of the projects incl

SUBMITTER: Arsenault Knudsen EN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12595238 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature