Determination of Nursing Students’ Awareness of Evidence-Based Nursing Practice

Aim: This study was performed to determine the awareness of senior nursing studentsregarding to evidence based nursing practices.Material and Methods: The study that is designed in a descriptive nature was conducted with75 students. The data were collected by using a 21-item questionnaire that assess the students’awareness regarding to evidence based nursing practices.Results: Of the students, 96% stated that they have heard the term of evidence based nursingpractice before. While 97.3% of the students stated that they knew scanning the literature and73.3% of them stated that they received training about critical article reviewing, the databasethat was mostly used for literature review was Google Scholar with the percentage of 98.7%.Of the respondents 94.7% stated that they believed in evidence-based practice in nursing and98.7% stated that they needed evidence for nursing practices. While 93.4% of the students’wanted to get more information on evidence based nursing practice, 90.7% of them wished toparticipate in an education in this area.Conclusion: Majority of the students had awareness with regards to evidence based nursingpractice, believed in the importance of it and they needed it. In accordance with these results,we suggest planning of studies that will determine the barriers in front of evidence-basednursing, promotion of students for doing more publications, and regulation in the curriculumregarding to this area.