Improving clinical effectiveness through an evidence-based approach: meeting the challenge for nursing in the United...

Improving clinical effectiveness is a major challenge facing nurses working in the United Kingdom and requires a coordinated approach in order to ensure that the information about which interventions work is made available to those in a position to use it. This means that policy makers, administrators, and nurses need to base decision making on the best available evidence. In this article we explore the background to the drive for evidence-based practice and discuss how a group of nurse researchers have begun working with nurse administrators and practitioners in a large acute hospital to help change the rhetoric of evidence-based practice in nursing into reality.