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California State University, Long Beach
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I/ST 355 | International Environmental Issues
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2023
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In what ways is EBP applied where you work or where you do clinicals? Evidenced Based Practice (EBP) in nursing is the utilization of the best, most recent, and proven techniques, while nursing research is the research to bring forth new knowledge. (Chien, 2019) The ability of nurses to investigate, research, and use EBP can all be correlated to the implementation into the medical setting. Having research is not enough but being able to practice it in a setting in which variables arise such as the fluctuation of patient acuity can further prove if the research is viable. I currently work as a CNA and the implementation of EBP is done with all patient care interventions. One implementation is the procedure of Time Voids (TV). Time voids is training the patients ability to gain better control of their bowel movements and bladder. Time Voids are implemented on patients who are found to be incontinent either due to their diagnoses such as stroke, acute trauma events that have left numbness from midsection down or Guillen Bure Syndrome. How Time Voids work is two hours to prevent urinating into a pull-up or having a bowel movement and the patient is laying in their feces, they are checked and assessed for dryness and to see if they had a bowel movement. Either the nurse or a CAN will walk into the patient’s room and ask if the patient if they have an urge or if they need to go at that moment. Every two hours they are assessed and taken to the bathroom if needed. Discuss the findings of a QI initiative or study from either your clinical location/hospital website or another online source For Time voids, the main goal is to help patients regain control and feeling of their urinary urges and bowel urges. Research on spinal cord injuries have shown that there is an appropriate level sensory information being sent back to the spinal cord through specific tasks such as stepping or loading that can positively affect the neural circuits that are in charge of the urogenital and bowel functions. (Hubscher, 2018)

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