Annual Nursing Congress: The Art of Care

In the past, Nurses used to provide clinical care, even though no solid evidence supported this practice following basic logical assumptions. Usually, Health Care Providers (HCPs) including Nurses often follow outdated policies and procedures without questioning their current practices in terms of accuracy, safety, feasibility and applicability. The aim of this presentation is to provide an overview on the applications of translating evidence on patients’ clinical outcomes, safety, quality of care, leadership and management, education and health policy. Nurses are collaborating with other healthcare providers to develop new and innovative ways to translate evidence into practice to provide the best quality of care while maintaining the highest levels of safety standards. Nursing leaders need to build the infrastructure (policies, processes, resources, etc.) for transfer of knowledge into practice through empowering environment for Nurses. Education is primarily aims to move evidence from the generation phase through dissemination and into implementation, in order to address the unmet needs.