TEST BANK FOR Evidence-Based Physical Examination Best Practices for Health & Well-Being Assessment 2nd Edition

, SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO ADVANCED HEALTH AND WELL-BEING

ASSESSMENT


• Fully integrating an assessment of wellness into practice involves understanding that

beinghealthy involves more than physical health.

• Ten dimensions of wellness:


• Physical


• Emotional

, • Financial


• Intellectual


• Career


• Social


• Creative


• Environmental


• Spiritual


• Digital


• Each dimension can impact the other dimensions.


THE SEVEN STEPS OF EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE


• Step 0 Cultivate a spirit of inquiry within an evidence-based practice

culture andenvironment.

• Step 1 Formulate the burning clinical PICOT (Patient population, Intervention or

Issue ofinterest, Comparison intervention or group, Outcome, and Time frame)

question.

• Step 2 Systematically search for the best evidence.


• Step 3 Critically appraise the evidence.


• Step 4 Integrate the best evidence with one’s clinical expertise and patient/family-

valuedpreferences in making a practice decision or change.

• Step 5 Evaluate outcomes of a practice decision or change based on evidence.


• Step 6 Disseminate the outcomes of the evidence-based practice (EBP) decision or

change.(cont.)

, THE SEVEN STEPS OF EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE (cont.)


• It is important for clinicians to place their clinical questions in PICOT format to yield

the mostrelevant, efficient, and best evidence search of the literature.