As you think back over the last seven weeks, you have all come a long way with understanding research and EBP. The week introduction stated it best: “Gone is the reliance on traditions, myths, and outdated resources.”

Think about nursing practice and describe one barrier that you feel prohibits nurses from engaging in EBP; share one strategy you could use to facilitate the use of evidence to help improve nursing care for patients.

Reflect back over your time in the course and describe how your thinking has changed about nursing research and evidence-based practice; describe one new learning during this course that you believe was the most helpful.

**Please credit at least your weekly lesson and your textbook within your posts this week. No outside references are required. Take some time and really reflect on what you have learned and how you can apply it to your nursing practice

Local Practice Problem Exploration

Reflect upon the selected national practice problem in Week 1 to address the following.

• From a local perspective, how does the practice problem impact nurses, nursing care, healthcare organizations, and the quality of care being provided?
• Identify the local key stakeholders related to the selected practice problem.
• Describe one approach used at your unique setting to address this problem. From your perspective, is this intervention effective in addressing the problem? Why or why not? If this practice problem is not addressed at your workplace, propose an intervention that could be implemented on a local scale to address the problem.

  Please answer these questions separated and use at least 3 sources no later than 5 years.