Nursing

Respond to your colleagues’ posts by sharing your thoughts on their specialty, supporting their choice or offering suggestions if they have yet to choose. 

At least 2 references in each peer responses!

Evidence-Based Practice is critical to make decisions about how to promote health or provide care (Laureate Education Producer, 2018). Since 2010 this has been the gold standard of nursing and healthcare. The purpose of using EBP is that it has been shown that it leads to the highest quality of care and the best patient outcomes (Melnyk & Overholt,2018, p. 12). Modern medicine has shifted to relying on data, analytics, and reproducible test that lead to collaborated results.

For my website, I have decided to review the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) website. This website provides an opportunity for utilizing research, continuing education, and access to publications. While browsing the website, you can find that the vision of the APNA is to use EBP in recovery-focused assessments, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluations of persons with mental illness and substance use disorders (APNA.org, 2020). According to the website, sixty percent of their members are advanced practicing nurses. This shows that EBP is a major part of their organization.

The APNA also distributes the Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (JAPNA). This journal promotes state of the art information and is backed by EBP (APNA.org, 2020).  On top of an online database, a journal, and an electronic newsletter, the APNA also holds conferences twice a year. These are both focused on expanding the role of the mental health nurse through EBP.

After reviewing the website and sifting through the information, I have not changed my mind of this organization. The APNA states and continues to prove that EBP is at the forefront of its mission. This is proven by a journal that focuses on EBP techniques, and conferences that spread new information that has been proven by EBP. The APNA is grounded in evidence-based practice. I look forward to getting to know this organization better as I progress with my education.