Evidence-Based Practice

Evidence based practice. You mean nursing is only starting to use EBP recently???! Ehhhh???! when the rest of the world are already ages ahead of us???! I thought I had heard of this term some time ago... Man...

I'm so uninspired to write anything that's of worth these days. So I decided to jot down whatever I learnt from my conference here. Did you know that medication errors killed like 7000 people in the US alone??? That's like, super freaky and scary!!!! OMG!! I found out about the Dennis Quaid incident only today. His twins were given Heparin 10 times the normal dose!!! That's so so so so scary!! You know? ALl these incidences only makes me all the more wary when dishing out medication. It's scary to be a nurse!!!

But in this conference, I like it when they actually said that it's the system's fault when an error occurs. Do you know that filling in the incident report form (for medication error) is like a death sentence for me??? I feel so scared. But yesterday, they talked about consoling the poor nurse who has done a mistake. And suddenly? I feel as though someone understands! Do you know how it must have been like for the poor nurse who gave the Quaid twins that dose of Heparin?? She must have been stumped and shocked! I certainly would have been too numb to work, heck I would have resigned or something!!!

Anyway, Evidence-Based Practice. LOL! Sorry for being super random today. I'm like flying of the shelves! I wonder which hospital in Malaysia will be the pioneer in this field. Nice isn't it if Adventist starts it? But there are too many projects running concurrently this year. And EBP need lots of research and evidence appraisal before a new guideline can be published. And looking for worthy evidence itself is going to be hard. Imagine appraising every piece of research paper for it's grading and looking through the methodology!!! Yuck!!

But I think if a team is doing this, and everyone is passionate about it? It is quite an enjoyable thing! I find it quite appealing ^_^ Oops! need to have dinner now. JCI's coming next year! I'm on the infection control panel (I think) and let's hope I can learn more new things and improve patient care!!

Cheers darls!!