Evidence Based Practice Essay

• Explain/document your search strategy/your process to find the evidence/best

practice for your question

• Thread the process through your essay and reference where needed
• What is the strategy/plan for your search?
• Key concepts/word combinations etc.
• Do no use Google Scholar to get an overview and help key words but you

must use the nursing databases – at least 2 or 3 databases (e.g. CINAHL, Medline,

Joanna Briggs, Cochrane library)

Locating the evidence

• Indicate how you have refined your search limits (peer reviewed, guidelines, date

range, language, etc)

• Skim/scan search results for key word. At this stage you will not read in depth

every article.

• Explain how you have chosen what to keep/discard.
• Refine search results to eventually get a small pool of articles or guidelines

(no set number but around 2-5 will give you enough to appraise without going

too big.)

Locating the evidence

• Explain/document your search strategy/your process to find the evidence/best

practice for your question

• Thread the process through your essay and reference where needed
• What is the strategy/plan for your search?
• Key concepts/word combinations etc.
• Do no use Google Scholar to get an overview and help key words but you

must use the nursing databases – at least 2 or 3 databases (e.g. CINAHL, Medline,

Joanna Briggs, Cochrane library)

• Only use scholarly, credible sources from library databases
• Majority should be peer reviewed journal articles, systematic reviews or clinical

guidelines.

• Cite contemporary sources not older than 7 years
• Reference any ideas that are not your own
• 5 REFERENCES