Nursing Education and Evidence Based Practice

Abstract

Today, there is an increasing need of grounding the applications on best evidences in order to enable all health care professionals to provide the best care service for patients. Nurses are required to gain the habit of using evidences in their applications, have the culture of grounding their applications on the scientific knowledge and develop the skills of evaluating the researches critically in order to actualize these evidences. In this review, it was aimed to reveal how nursing education programs should be developed for using evidences by nursing students in occupational applications and for improving assessment skills after their graduations.