Handicaps for Evidence-based Practice and Its Influencing Factors in Clinical Nurses in Zhejiang Province

Objective To fully understand the handicaps for evidence-based practice and its influencing factors and to provide evidence for intervention.Methods With Chinese version of Handicap Inventory Short Form about Evaluation of Evidence-Based Nursing Practice developed by LIU Xiao-hua,a cross-sectional survey was conducted among 831 clinical nurses in Zhejiang Province.Results Though with well knowledge of evidence-based practice in nursing,70.7% of the nurses proposed there existed handicaps in evidence-based practice.Insufficient resources of implementing evidence-based practice and low quality of nursing search report scored higher.There were less handicaps among nurses after training of evidence-based practice in nursing,those with senior positions and those in department of nursing administration,emergency and ICU(P0.05).Conclusion There are many handicaps for evidence-based practice in nursing.Great emphasis should be laid to scientific research of nursing.Sufficient evidence-based practice resources and various evidence-based practice in nursing education for nurses would contribute to the development of evidence-based nursing practice.