Application of evidence based healthcare as measure of quality and safety improvement

Introduction: The World Health Organization states that health care is a science and art that requires a lot of understanding and practical application of knowledge and skills that are specific and based on research derived from biological, social, and humanistic sciences, and management. Aim: The main goal of this study is to determine the extent to which nurses implement the health care process based on scientific and professional evidence and evidence from clinical practice. Materials and methods: The study is quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional, and comparative. The author's questionnaire was created based on a review of professional and scientific literature and evidence from practice was used for the research. Results: Analysis of knowledge about the meaning of evidence-based health care shows that 140 (61.4%) respondents answered correctly to this question “Providing health care based on scientific research, professional literature, and good practice”. Almost 80% of respondents (181) correctly answered that evidence-based health care should be provided by nurse technicians of all levels of education who work in the health care process. Conclusion: The results of this research support the statement that nurses-technicians implement the health care process based on scientific and expert evidence, evidence from clinical practice, and this is supported by the fact that evidence-based health care is applied fully or partially by 221, or 96, 6%, of respondents.