Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Critical Care Nursing: An Ethnographic Case Study of Knowledge Use.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To explore how critical care nurses access, negotiate and apply knowledge in high-pressure clinical environments, focusing on organisational, cultural and leadership factors influencing evidence-based practice implementation in acute hospital settings.

Design

A focused ethnographic collective case study was conducted across two contrasting critical care units in England.

Methods

Methods included non-participant observation (56 sessions), semi-structured interviews (36 participants) and document review. Spradley's Developmental Research Sequence guided data generation and analysis. Data were collected over an eight-month period (February to September 2022).

Findings

Five major themes were identified: sources of knowledge and acquisition strategies; instituti

SUBMITTER: Ominyi J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12907619 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature