BARRIERS OF EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE IN SAUDI ARABIA
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nursing; evidence-based practice; barrier.
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People who are sick and know a lot about health care problems are making it harder to provide safe and effective care. Evidence-based practice helps make sure that patients get safe and caring health care and helps nurses become and stay skilled in their work. Aim of the Study: The study's goal is to find out how Saudi Arabian nurses see the barriers to evidence-based practice. Methodology: A basis for theory As a theory base for the study, Rogers' Diffusion of Innovation Theory is used. Design: A study of quantitative description. A health care organisation in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which is connected to the ministry of health (MOH), was chosen as the study's setting. Questionnaire-Based group of the Study: This is the method used to choose the group for the study. The questionnaires were filled out by 795 nurses, which is a return rate of 93.52%. It used the BARRIERS to Research Utilisation Scale to gather data for this work. The study's results showed that the organisation factors were the biggest problem. These were followed by communication, user, and innovation. Four of the top five organisational barriers were caused by nurses not having enough power to change how they care for patients on their own. This was seen as the biggest barrier to EBP by the nurses who worked in the study setting. The study came to the conclusion that MOH nursing policymakers face new challenges when it comes to getting organisational support and building an EBP-based organisational culture in order to encourage nurses to use research results in their daily work even more. The study also made suggestions for how these problems could be solved. More educational programmes should be made to make nurses more aware of how important it is to use the best scientific proof in their work.
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