Part A: In what ways can evidence-based care practice improve services? Discuss potential benefits and challenges of adopting an evidence-based approach. What sources of evidence, other than research evidence, can inform care practice? Illustrate your answers with examples from Block 5 of K101.

This essay will look at how evidence-based care can inform care practice and the challenges it brings along too. Knowledge-based care will also be discussed since some people are more in favor of this approach. In addition, being held accountable through record keeping and adhering to protocols and guidelines will be considered. Last but not least, this essay will include how the proliferation of information on the internet plays a role in making care safer.

To explain, evidence-based care uses research evidence to ensure that the care offered to service users will most likely be beneficial, effective and safe. This approach started out in the field of medicine, and its important role in getting care right has become increasingly emphasized in the 1990s onwards (Jones, 2010, p.133). There are many potential benefits and challenges that occur when basing care on research evidence….(short extract)