Evidence-based practice (EBP) is defined as the conscientious, judicious, and explicit use of current best evidence to make decisions about patient care. EBP incorporates the best available evidence in order to guide nursing care and improve patient outcomes. This will assist health practitioners to address health care questions by using an evaluative and qualitative approach. EBP is a problem-solving approach to clinical practice and involves the search for and critically appraising the most relevant evidence, one\\'s clinical experience and the preferences of the patient (Fortunato, Grainger, & Abou-El-Enein, 2018). The process involved in EBP allows the practitioner to assess research, clinical guidelines, and other information resources that are based on high-quality findings and apply the results obtained to improve their practice.
Since EBP heavily relies on research and searching for available evidence to support a hypothetical question in order to solve a current problem, it is vital that one understands and interprets statistical data that is presented in the research articles that they are evaluating. A majority of the articles or evidence that will be used in EBP will contain statistical information that should be interpreted and fully understood...
Therefore, understanding statistical data will be highly beneficial to the individual conducting the research for EBP. With a proper understanding of statistical data, one is able to assess the quality of the studies and the validity of the conclusions made by the researchers (Castellanos, Castillo, Lukyanenko, & Tremblay, 2017). This is beneficial to EBP because one has to rely solely on the evidence presented by others in order to support their justification or push for a change in policy or practice. As earlier stated, EBP relies on the evidence presented by others. Therefore, it is vital that one can be able to deduce the vital information from the data presented by others in order to make a case for their hypothesis.
Statistical data is secondary data and this makes it cheaper and less time consuming to analyze, and this is beneficial to EBP in that one can use different studies and show how they have used the same approach and proven that it is beneficial to have a particular practice (Wang, Kung, & Byrd, 2018). There are numerous patterns and correlations that one can uncover when they are using statistical data. These patterns can be…
