Putting the Evidence into Practice: The King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre Experience

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Saturday, 22 July 2006

This presentation is part of : Acute Care Updates and Strategies

Suzi Robertson-Malt, PhD, Nursing, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Learning Objective #1: The learner will be able to understand how to use the organizational structures of a large tertiary care facility to promote evidence based practice.
Learning Objective #2: The learner will be able to organize a practice committee’s activity toward prioritizing evidence based practice.

For more than a decade, Evidence Based Practice (EBP) has become the desired aim behind organized health care. So much so that hospitals enshrine the principles of EBP within their mission statement and strategies and international organizations for quality assurance identify EBP as a ‘measurable’ element of their key objective for quality patient outcomes. For example, a principle theme of the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH&RC) mission statement is ‘to provide quality patient care’. The organization has identified the following strategy as a means to achieve this mission: All clinical decision making is guided by the best available evidence. At KFSH&RC the Nursing Affairs Clinical Practice Committee was given the mandate to ensure that EBP underpinned the provision of nursing care. A pragmatic process was developed to facilitate common understandings in the preparation of the IPPs and enable all IPPs to be based on Best Practice recommendations. The following presentation is an overview of the process identified and implemented by the committee.

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