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The study was intended to examine #Perceived Barriers to evidence based nursing. The study was conducted in Khyber teaching hospital and Rehman medical institute Peshawar By using Rao-soft sample size calculator the size of sample was 94 from total 285 population. A #selfadministered questionnaire with 24 items was applied on nurses in the stated hospitals. The identified barriers to evidence based nursing practice were insufficient time, no access to research materials, and no authority to change patient care, inadequate facilities and unavailability of equipment. Awareness to the importance of evidence based nursing practice is the need of the day, the Government and health authorities shall do all the possible action for the availability of necessary equipment and policies for the #implementation of EBP. Due to increased expectations of high quality nursing care in society, it is no longer acceptable for nurses to deliver nursing care based only on experience and textbook knowledge; but, to provide quality nursing care based on research findings. But still a gap exist between the knowledge of evidence based practice and its implementation. Evidence based practice was known as "evidence based medicines" in 1980s; later on, the word changed to "evidence based practice." The purpose was to identify the importance of scientific evidences in #clinical areas Melnyk. Professional nurses of the 21^st century is facing many challenges within the dynamic state of health care setting. Some of these challenges are lack of resources, lack of conducive teaching environment, the attitude toward research, lack of knowledge of research and specifically low level of knowledge and compliance to "evidence-based #nursing practice." Nurses in the developing world even do not know evidence based practice. An investigation carried out by the National Board of #Health and Welfare in Sweden revealed that 8.6% of patients were injured during hospital care. These injuries were judged to have been avoidable if actual knowledge had been applied.

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Barriers to Evidence Based Nursing Practice in Tertiary Care Hospitals of Peshawar, Pakistan by Aurang Zeb in BJSTR