[VEVINA]

In current health care environment requires nurses with the skills to find and apply the best evidence practice for effective health care. A question comes into my mind recently and would like to hear all of your opinions on this area.

Evidence-based practices encourage critical thinking in nursing
What do you think?

Hope to get as more views as possible because I am currently doing a presentation on this topic.

[kitty29]

Sure it does...it makes you look at all the issues. We routinely do CI projects and that is why.

[TreeSawRN]

I think whether or not evidence-based practice encourages critical thinking depends upon whether we are talking about the process of determining what is evidence-based. The process, yes, I thinks requires research and critical thinking. If you mean applying something that someone else has determined is best practice [without reviewing the evidence for yourself] then it does not.
JMHO
TreeSawRN