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Background: The application of EBP has highly appreciated across healthcare disciplines to improve health care delivery. The utmost goal of nursing is the safe and compassionate patient care that can be achieved through utilization of best research evidence in making decisions for health care services. These expectations have laid the responsibility on clinical instructors to prepare their future nurses for this multifaceted role. Aim: Therefore, the present study aimed to determine the clinical instructors’ level of knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding EBP in the Pakistani context. Methodology: A cross-sectional study design was adopted. Clinical instructors (n=110) from two public and private sectors nursing institutes recruited in the study by using convenience sampling technique. A structured self-administered questionnaire was utilized. Data was entered in SPSS (Version 23.0) for analysis and descriptive analysis was done. Results: The participants were predominantly female clinical instructors (86.4%) as compared to male counterparts. Most of the study participants (62.7%) were having Bachelor of Science in nursing degree. Study yielded the good level of knowledge among most (96.4%) of the instructors whereas about half of the study participants (50.9%) showed moderate level of practice. Moreover, underdeveloped attitude was found among less than half (47.2%) of the participants. Conclusion: Generally, knowledge of clinical instructors regarding EBP was high, but attitude and practice were low among the clinical instructors. |
