Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Model: Research Paper

Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Model

Johns Hopkins’s evidence-based practice model encourages clinicians to utilize the available evidence to develop and implement best practices within the healthcare system. The model comprises five main stages: inquiry, learning, practice, best practices, and improvement. Inquiry involves identifying a problem and its potential causes. During the inquiry, clinicians identify existing problems in the healthcare system and attempt to identify the contributing factors. Learning involves gathering the available evidence and the best strategies to address the existing problem (Speroni et al., 2020, p. 98). After learning, clinicians reflect on the knowledge and skills they have gathered before putting them into practice. During the practice phase, clinicians implement the learned strategies and evaluate their effectiveness in addressing the existing problem. If the strategies fail to address the problem satisfactorily, the clinicians return to the learning stage until an effective strategy is obtained. The best practices phase involves analyzing the available evidence-based approaches and selecting the most effective one. The best practice identified is implemented to create an environment of innovation and evidentiary dynamics in the healthcare system.

Electronic health records could be implemented together with Johns Hopkins’s evidence-based practice model to assist in managing and protecting data. Electronic health records involve using technologically developed software to store patient health information and facilitate easier retrieval and interpretation by healthcare professionals. Such a technology could be implemented in the healthcare system to increase access to realistic data regarding patients’ health conditions and allow clinicians to make evidence-based inferences. As a result, healthcare professionals would gain greater capacity to provide evidence-based patient care by utilizing insight from electronic health records. Eventually, the technology could assist in managing and protecting data required for successfully implementing the Johns Hopkins evidence-based practice model.

Reference

Speroni, K. G., McLaughlin, M. K., & Friesen, M. A. (2020). Use of Evidence‐based Practice Models and Research Findings in Magnet‐Designated Hospitals Across the United States: National Survey Results. Worldviews on Evidence‐Based Nursing, 17(2), 98-107. https://sigmapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/wvn.12428