Evidence-Based Practice: Proposed Application of Facilitating Tools for Clinical Nurses

The questionnaire have closed-ended question about the intelligibility of translation for experts, with the possibility of answering yes or no, and an open field for suggestions for changes. In case of inadequacy (which we define as less than four yes answers for the tools), we will make the changes cited by the experts and submit the changed tools to a further expert evaluation.

The instrument has seven questions and one open for comments. The closed questions are related to the description of a clinical question with answer possibilities (very slow; slow; fast; very fast), ease in searching for evidence (challenging; difficult; easy; very easy), understanding of scientific articles (not understandable; partially understandable; understandable; totally understandable), ease in summarizing and classifying the levels of evidence and ease in describing the application of evidence with (challenging; difficult; easy; very easy), elaborating an action plan for disseminating the evidence, in addition to the ease of going through all the phases of a PBE project in relation to the material offered during the workshop (with or without Johns Hopkins tools) with answer possibilities (not helpful; partially helpful; helpful; very helpful), the latter responses are associated with greater ease in the process of structuring and describing an evidence-based practice project.

This tool have five closed questions to verify compliance with the basic requirements and key elements of an EBP project. The closed questions are related to the description of a clinical question with answer possibilities (yes; no), about survey of bibliographic articles with answer possibilities (Sufficient; Partially sufficient; Insufficient), about the classification of evidence according to the level of quality, elaboration of synthesis of the findings relating to the levels of evidence and ability to develop a dissemination plan for the implementation of the PBE project , with answer possibilities ( Yes; Partially; No). The latter answers are associated with a poor conformity in the exercise of structuring and describing an evidence-based practice project from the researcher's perspective.

It is a self-applicable instrument, considered important for assessing the use, opinions and knowledge of nurses about this practice. The instrument assesses attitudes, knowledge and implementation of PBE, uses a Likert-type scale with a score from one, just like never to seven equal to often, in three domains: practice, attitudes and knowledge related to PBE, with higher scores indicating more positive attitudes toward EBP.