Patient Handling Newly Diagnosed Hypertension

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Evidence-based practice requires nurses to implement the latest research on a topic to their everyday patient care. The quality of care will improve, because the research would nit be based on traditional care, colleague opinions, personal beliefs. It is bias free (What Is Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing? | ANA, n.d.). Evidence-based practice are based on experience, patient outcomes, preferences, and values. Evidence base practice topics are never new research, they are topics that have been researched.

Nurses are at the patients bedside 24/7 and sees what the patient deals regarding medical treatment and outcomes. Nursing practice problems involves the patients overall cognitive, emotional, and physical challenges that is brought upon the medical diagnosis. Example of this nursing problem is a patient handling the newly diagnoses of hypertension and having to make food and lifestyle chances. Medical practice only focuses on the medical problem. Things that are focused are on labs, imaging, and physiology status of the disease. In the hypertension example, it looking at Kidney functions, vascular studies, and medication regimen.

PICOT is strategic framework that will help clinicians develop questions that will some how improve the health outcomes of the patients (Research Guides: The PICOT Question: Why Does PICOT Matter?, 2023). PICOT needs to be based on nursing practice problems, because it will show that the research question ties back to nursing practice. As mentioned before, nursing practice problem is patient based therefore making the PICOT nursing practice problem will help improve outcomes.