When patients are admitted to the hospital or seen in a clinic the goal is that they are going there to get the best care that can be delivered. Yet it has been proven that this is not always the case and care provided is not always proven effective. "Increased awareness of national shortcomings in both quality and value in the nation's health care has fueled discussions on approaches to reform. As long as the gap persists between the prevailing patterns of care and best practices readily established for a given condition, health care cannot deliver the value we want and expect" Institute of Medicine (IOM), (2011) p. 1. Health professionals working together under the IOM formed a Best Practices Innovation Collaborative (BPIC) " catalyzes joint activities among the health professions for improvement and innovation in health and health care, focusing on fostering evidenced-based best practices, including team care and shared decision making" (IOM, 2011, p.1). IOM was and is very instrumental in ensuring that evidenced-based practice (EBP) and evidenced-based nursing
(EBN) becomes a routine part of healthcare today. . McSherry, R., and Scott, K. maintain that " EBN has a very strong position in the clinical governance agenda. This is important because quality improvement emphasises the main components, being thedevelopment of an EBP culture through offering strategic direction for developing, applying and evaluating the skills in practice" (2008, p.1085). With EBP and EBN, there is the potential to save time and money, decreasing cost and improving overall patient outcomes. There seems to still be at least at my hospital a great deal of education that needs to take place in order for all of our nurses to become more familiar with evidence-based practice, however it is evident from the research that patient outcomes are improved with