Abstract

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a recognized standard of professional nursing due to its positive impact on care quality and patient outcomes. Despite ongoing efforts to maximize EBP at the point of care, current estimates indicate that only 30% of healthcare decisions are evidence-based. Individual and organizational factors are commonly identified for their influences on EBP in nursing, but group factors have been largely unexplored. Group-level factors, such as norms, are essential to investigations of phenomena that occur within multilevel organizations (i.e., hospitals) where individuals work in groups. Understanding the EBP norms that emerge among groups of nurses in direct care roles may support the goal to increase evidence-based nursing care.

The purpose of this dissertation study was to explore and describe the EBP norms that exist among groups of RNs who practice at bedside within Magnet-designated hospitals. Magnet-designated hospitals are recognized for their positive EBP cultures and infrastructures that support nurses' EBP beliefs and goals, making them an ideal context to investigate shared viewpoints about EBP. Eligible Registered Nurses (RNs) were recruited from eight units within two Magnet-designated hospitals in the Midwestern United States. Using Q methodology, the participants' individual perspectives about EBP were collected, then correlated and interpreted to uncover the shared viewpoints, or EBP norms, that existed within and across the study sites.

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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 30571740; ProQuest document ID: 2852425073. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Rachel Ramsey, PhD, RN, CNE

Sigma Membership

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Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Other

Research Approach

Other

Keywords:

Evidence-Based Practice, Patient Care, Group Collaboration

Advisor

Amy Wonder

Second Advisor

Angela Opsahl

Third Advisor

Deanna Reising

Fourth Advisor

Erik Gonzalez-Mule

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

Indiana University

Degree Year

2023

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None: Degree-based Submission

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Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2024-03-14

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