What Is Evidence-Based Nursing Practice? Evidence-based practice in nursing is a method of providing nursing care that makes use of the most recent research to improve patients' safety, health, and well-being. This clinic is dedicated to providing high-quality patient treatment while lowering healthcare costs and varying patient outcomes. EBP in nursing focuses on the integration of clinical competence, such as information, critical reasoning, and judgment abilities gained via nursing education and practical experiences. When Did Evidence-Based Practice First Appear in Nursing? The first examples of evidence-based nursing practice may be found in the 1850s, when Florence Nightingale's book Notes on Nursing set the framework for evidence-based nursing practice as we know it today. In 1996, the term "evidence-based practice" first appeared in the literature, and it was defined as "the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients." Evidence-based medicine: what it is and what it isn't (Sackett DL, Rosenberg WM, Gray JA, Haynes RB, Richardson WS. BMJ. 1996;312(7023):71-72). Marjorie Beyers discussed the prerequisites and benefits of implementing an evidence-based practice nursing paradigm in her 1999 book "About Evidence-Based Nursing Practice" in Nursing Management. Who Was the Pioneer of Evidence-Based Nursing Practice? Evidence-based practice in nursing has been credited to several sources. Professor Archie Cochrane, an epidemiologist from the United Kingdom, is one source. His research investigations found that evidence-based procedures, rather than traditional care patterns, led in better outcomes for patients and staff. Furthermore, Florence Nightingale's efforts in the 1800s and Gordon Guyatt, one of the earliest advocates for evidence-based medicine, have influenced EBP and are attributed with some sort of theory connected to evidence-based practices in nursing.