ESSAY REBUT
ESSAY REBUT
The author offers cogent argument on evidence-based medicine with concrete examples from personal experience and evidence support. The healthcare environment is pervasive and constantly evolving, hence the need to keep learning and updating yourself with new knowledge and skills to remain valuable and relevant in the current environment. Healthcare reforms have also taken the course of patient-centered and holistic care, prompting healthcare providers to learn to develop therapeutic-patient relationships, unlike in the past, where the primary role of the provider was to provide treatment. Currently, providers, particularly nurses, are expected to know the patient personally, understand their worldview, preferences, beliefs, interests, and needs and adopt these to make medical decisions. This evolution indicates the need for continuing education to update oneself with new knowledge and competencies to help drive the reforms and improve healthcare delivery. (ESSAY REBUT)
Additionally, the current practice is more evidence-based, expecting providers to adopt the current best evidence to make decisions about patient care. Evidence-based medicine (EBM) utilizes nursing or healthcare research to organize and adopt current data to help make better medical decisions.1 EBM is not standalone, as healthcare professionals must combine their clinical experience and patient values, interest, and needs to make the best evidence for their patients.1 Healthcare providers must constantly ask relevant clinical questions, search for the best evidence to answer the question, thoroughly appraise it, apply it, and evaluate its effectiveness in decision-making.(ESSAY REBUT)
References
- Tenny S, Varacallo M. Evidence Based Medicine. In: StatPearls. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; October 24, 2022. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK470182/
