IJMABHR International Journal of Medical and All Body Health ResearchIJMABHR 2582-8940 Anfo Publication House 401 10.54660/IJMBHR.2025.6.4.35-37 Challenges of Applying Evidence -Based Practice in Nursing: Subject Review MahdiMohammed Hamzah Al-Farabi Private University College, Iraq 10102025 6 4 35 37 16082025 17092025 CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

That applying evidence-based practice enhances nursing practice, increases confidence in decision-making, and provides better patient care overall. To address clinical issues related to patient care, EBP integrates well-designed evidence with client preferences, evaluations, and providers of healthcare. The intent of this review is to look into the difficulty’s nurses have when putting evidence-based practice into practice. Therefore, by identifying some of the hurdles to the adoption of EBP among nurses, health care systems can devise strategies to assist medical facilities in avoiding such issues and implementing the approach among healthcare providers. Plenty of studies have been carried out to look at the obstacles preventing the worldwide roll out of (EBP). There hasn't been any research on the subject in hospital or primary healthcare settings in Iraq. Analysis of the current state of (EBP) in nursing is the goal of this essay. The paper includes a description of how EBP works as well as an account of the history and development of EBP. The present obstacles that the nursing profession faces in implementing (EBP) into healthcare delivery are examined, and strategies to overcome these obstacles are also discussed.

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