title: Challenging accepted practice standards to ensure care is evidence based and up to date.
abstract: A vital part of nursing involves evaluating and challenging practices to ensure they are up to date and evidence based. This article describes how a literature review and an audit led to changes in an outpatient clinic.
authors.affiliation: Medway Foundation Trust, Kent.
authors.forename: Alison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Griffiths
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities; D019985:Benchmarking; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D055318:Evidence-Based Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D015907:Hysteroscopy / Q000451:nursing*; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009731:Nursing Audit / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D057184:Practice Patterns, Nurses' / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom