Nurses’ Knowledge, Perception, and Attitude towards Evidence-Based Practice at King Abdullah Medical City-Saudi Arabia

Awad Hassan Alkhatib^1, , Ebtisam Abdullatif Ibrahim², Mohammed Ameenuddin¹ and Ibrahim Abdullatif Ibrahim³

¹Critical care unit, King Abdullah Medical City, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

²Nursing research department, King Abdullah Medical City, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

³Nursing administration department, Faculty of nursing, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

Cite this paper:
Awad Hassan Alkhatib, Ebtisam Abdullatif Ibrahim, Mohammed Ameenuddin and Ibrahim Abdullatif Ibrahim. Nurses’ Knowledge, Perception, and Attitude towards Evidence-Based Practice at King Abdullah Medical City-Saudi Arabia. American Journal of Nursing Research. 2021; 9(1):1-7. doi: 10.12691/ajnr-9-1-1

Abstract

Background: Health care organizations consider evidence-based practice as the gold standard for the provision of safe and compassionate health care. Aim of the study: The present study aims to assess the knowledge, perception, and attitude of nurses regarding evidence-based practice. Subjects and Methods: A descriptive design was utilized to achieve the aim of the study. The study included a random sample of (262) staff nurses who were responsible for providing nursing care to patients. Data were collected using three scales; knowledge scale, perception scale, and attitude scale regarding evidence-based practice. Results: The majority of the studied nurses had the knowledge and negative attitude regarding evidence-based practice and two-third of the studied nurses had a moderate level of perception regarding evidence-based practice. There was a statistically significant relationship between nurses’ knowledge and their educational qualification and there was a statistically significant relationship between nurses’ perception and their gender, educational qualification, and experience. Conclusion: There was a significant relationship between nurses’ Knowledge, perception, and attitude towards evidence-based practice. Recommendations: Nursing managers should develop an evidence-based practice training program to help nurses to be familiar with EBP steps. Nursing managers should motivate the nurses who follow up the EBP with different incentives.

Keywords:
attitude evidence-based practice knowledge nurses perception

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