Reviewing and Assessing Practice

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It's important to continually review and assess practice to ensure it is evidence-based and continues to meet the needs of service users, carers and family members. Quality and service improvements are often driven by health practitioners/professionals striving to enhance the patient/service user experience.

These improvements are often facilitated by undertaking audits, evaluations, or research-related activity. These mechanisms can help drive change that is founded on local, national and international best practice.

What does this mean for the Effective Practitioner?
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The effective practitioner must ensure that their skills are kept up-to-date and that local guidelines/protocols are followed to ensure services are delivered to a consistently high quality. Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals need more than professional know how to support evidence-based practice.

The Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professional needs to be able to draw on a variety of skills to ensure that they offer evidence-based practice. These skills complement professional know how and include general IT competence, the ability to gather evidence for a project from a variety of sources, an understanding of the best techniques and tools to use for data gathering and analysis and the ability to document a planned project to ensure you get the support you need for your project.

Learning Activities

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Click the link below to open or download a PDF document of reflective, work based activities that align to the Evidence, Research and Development Pillar of Practice

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