Evidence-Based Practice / Unit 20 EBP 2877 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds

Bringing Evidence to Policy

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The idea

The technique: establish that the problem is a policy problem and reframe the question accordingly; adapt an EBP process model rather than transferring it; gather the policy environment's own internal evidence; then prepare the appraised evidence in both written and spoken forms, specific about the policy sought, targeted at who decides it, and honest about its limits.

In practice

A practice question with a policy remedy. The problem restated in policy terms, and the question reframed so retrieval and appraisal look for what a policy decision needs. An EBP process model adapted rather than copied. The policy environment's own evidence gathered — what is proposed, who holds it, what stage it has reached — so the work reaches the right committee. The appraised evidence written as a brief a busy reader can act on, and prepared again as testimony that can be questioned. The specific policy named in the words that would enact it. Examples used to show what the findings mean for constituents, with the findings still carrying the case. Limits stated, because a brief that hides them is advocacy.

Where people slip

Say what you want enacted. A brief that describes a problem without naming the remedy has handed the remedy to whoever writes next, and the evidence you assembled will be attached to their proposal rather than yours.

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