What's the Big Deal About Evidence-Based Practice?

AT 9:30 P.M., YOUR 16-year-old son presents to the postanesthesia care unit (PACU) after undergoing an emergency laparoscopic appendectomy with an open exploratory laparotomy. The surgeon reports that the appendix ruptured and that more likely than not your son is now septic. This is real. The nightmare that other parents experience while in your care is now happening to you, the mother. You inquire from your son's PACU nurse what the hospital's evidence-based sepsis protocol is and how soon it will be initiated for your teenager? You know that his best chance of an effective recovery from sepsis is based on the best scientific evidence.
Source: Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: The Back Page Source Type: research