The nurses who work in an intensive care unit are determined to implement evidence-based practice ...

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Rationale 1: An increase in workload, as would be caused by 30 more admission, may make nurses fall back into using familiar interventions that are not particularly evidence based.
Rationale 2: Having an EBP criterion on the annual evaluation should encourage the nurses to continue to participate.
Rationale 3: Anything that increases the nurses' workload or stress may adversely impact desire to participate in EBP.
Rationale 4: Unexpected patient deaths can make nurses doubt their current practice. If EBP has been used as part of these patient's care, nurses may doubt the wisdom of the interventions.
Rationale 5: Increased use of agency nurses may increase the stress level of nurses employed by the facility. The agency nurses may also not be cognizant of the unit nurses' commitment to EBP which would increase stress.
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