Evidence Based Practice

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ASSESSMENT TASK #2: Scenario, Portfolio and Evidence-based Practice Evaluation Essay.

Evidence based learning is detrimental to all nursing practice. The following five artefacts have been chosen to be reflected on and evaluated, Instant Feeding Advice (ASCIA, 2010), Teenage Pregnancy (Braun, 2011), Do Not Move The Furniture and Other Advice For New Rural Area Nurses (Lenthall, 2012), Nurses Working In Very Remote Australia, Characteristics and Key Issues (Happell, 2012), and The Complete Australian Resource for Parenting Newborns to Teens (RCN, 2006). The main focus of this essay will be on the factsheet Teenage Pregnancy (Braun, 2011), it briefly discusses, health implications, decision making, socioeconomic implications and the importance of locating and sourcing support. The concept of evidence- based practice will be thoroughly analysed throughout the essay in regards to adolescent pregnancy.

The portfolio of artefacts represents student learning in relation to the evidence base for practice in pregnant adolescents. It contains five artefacts which are all related to teenage pregnancy, rural nursing and parenting. A portfolio is an important and necessary compilation of documents for a nurse to have, to ensure they have journals that interest, guide and base their practice.

Continual researching of evidence-based practice is imperative in all medical professions. The availability in Australia to appraised information is phenomenal. For information to be appraised and legal it must meet a certain criteria which has been checked by multiple people without bias. For example the criteria for a

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therapy study, the study must be randomized, the allocation of patients must be concealed, there has to be an establishment of baseline similarities in patients, patients must be blinded to who is receiving

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