[Evidence-based nursing--a comprehensive term].

Abstract

The connotation of Evidence Based Nursing, patient centred care, decisions in health care, intuition and evidence based on international published research is presented. A distinction between Evidence Based Medicine and Evidence Based Nursing in terms of evidence and the hierarchy of evidence is necessary. The concept of Evidence Based Nursing for the last few years has been including practical expertise and patient choice. In nursing the selection of research articles for implementation rely not solely on the evidence hierarchy but also on the model of Rycroft-Malone et al. (2002). The term Evidence Based Patient Choice was the answer to the declaration of patient rights. These rights about accurate and detailed information are essential, so that patients can actively be involved in the decision making process about the management of their disease. Nurses, therefore, must reflect and verbalize the intuition behind the decisions in a systematic and institutionalised way to include in their future decisions for similar cases the full range of evidence.