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Primary healthcare nurse managers' perceptions in relation to evidence-based practice and their role in further
Óscar Román1, Itziar Estalella2, Cristina Vaamonde-García3
1Department of Nursing I, Faculty of Medicine and Nursing, University of the Basque Country - UPV/EHU, Barrio Sarriena s/n, 48940 Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain; Bilbao-Basurto Integrated Health Organization, Osakidetza Basque Health Service, Montevideo Etorbidea, 18, 48013 Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain.
Objective:
To explore the perceptions of primary healthcare nurse managers in relation to evidence based practice (EBP) and their role for further EBP extension.
Design:
Bradshaw's qualitative descriptive approach. SITE: Primary Healthcare Centres in the Basque Country, Spain.
Participants:
12 nurse managers in Primary Healthcare Centres.
Methods:
Data were collected through semi-structured interviews in 2024, transcribed and analysed following qualitative content analysis.
Results:
Three categories were elaborated during the analysis. The first one, 'Somehow contradictory perceptions around EBP' describes how participants considered EBP at the core of nursing while at the same time perceived it to be something abstract, difficult to achieve and to implement. The second category, 'The tortuous pathway to EBP competence' reflects how participants understood that acquiring EBP competence was not a straightforward process, but dependent on individual willingness and motivation of each nurse. Finally, the third category 'EBP implementation: whose responsibility?' covers participants' reflections on their role in further EBP expansion as nursing supervisors along with reflections on institutional barriers and responsibility and action in this regard.
Conclusions:
There was a great consensus among participants in this study about EBP being essential to provide quality healthcare but, at the same time, they perceived EBP as something abstract and difficult to implement and dependent on individual nurses' willingness and motivation. Although participants extensively described organisational barriers for further EBP implementation, their role in EBP implementation was never described as advocating for an organisational change in favour of EBP but down the hierarchy towards the nurses under their management.
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