Nurses’ knowledge and Attitudes to Evidence-Based Nursing in Torbat Heidarieh Educational Hosital

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1 Instructor of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Torbat Heidarieh University of Medical Sciences, Torbat Heidarieh, Iran.

2 Instructor of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran.

3 MS Student of Elderly Nursing, Torbat Heidarieh University of Medical Sciences, Torbat Heidarieh, Iran.

4 BS of Nursing, Department of Nursing, Torbat Heidarieh University of Medical Sciences, Torbat Heidarieh, Iran.

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Background and Aims: Evidence-based nursing is a process, have been recently raised as a way of health care based on the newest results. The present study aimed to determine the nurses’ knowledge and attitudes toward evidence-based nursing in Torbat Heidarieh educational hospital.
Materials and Methods: This descriptive, cross-sectional study was done on 100 nurses in the city of Torbat Heidarieh with convenience sampling in 2015. Evidence-based questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge and attitudes about nursing. After completing the questionnaires the data were analyzed using spss 16.
Results: The results showed that 64% of participants had ever even heard the name of evidence-based nursing and 88% of participants did not know the different levels of evidence-based nursing, but most of them (89%) had a good attitude toward evidence-based nursing and only 11% of nurses had indifferent attitude toward evidence-based nursing.
Conclusion: Although the nurses did not have appropriate knowledge about evidence-based nursing, they had a positive attitude toward it. It is necessary to implement programs to increase awareness and give the right attitude toward evidence-based nursing in order to promote the patients’ nursing.

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Beyhagh
Volume 21, Issue 4
February 2017
Pages 46-54

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