NUR4636 – Community Health Nursing

Case Study

Chapter 4

Evidence-Based Practice and Ethics in Community Health

Nursing

The student nurse starts the day with the community health nurse with a discussion

about the implementation of evidence-based practice. The nurse reviews with the

student the importance of including appropriate research and evidence-based

practice principles each day during the daily visits. The community health nurse

emphasizes the importance of looking at one’s own values since the student nurse

will encounter various individuals in the community health setting. The community

health nurse asks the student nurse to review the key human values that influence

a client’s health.

1. The community health nurse asks the student nurse to explain what is

involved in evidence-based practice. What are the necessary steps in the

process of evidence-based practice that the nurse should include in the

discussion with the community health nurse?

2. What does implementation of evidence-based practice enable the community

health nurse to do in the community?

3. Research has what significant impact on community health and nursing

practice?

4. Values and ethical principles strongly influence community health nursing

practice and ethical decision-making. What function do values hold in clinical

practice in the community health setting?

5. What three human values influence client health that the community health

nurse must consider?