Discussion postEvidence based public health

Has your practicum site put evidence-based public health (EBPH) into practice?

No citations are required, which means the evidence has to be what you observed. That makes specificity the only thing separating a good post from an empty one.

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Last reviewed · August 23, 2026

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Maren Caldwell

MSN, RN, CNE

Medical-surgical nursing, pharmacology and NCLEX preparation

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Dr. Tessa Redmond

DNP, RN, CNE

Evidence-based practice and clinical education

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No citations means observation is the evidence

The final sentence changes what a good post looks like. With citations removed, there is nothing to hide behind, and the only thing distinguishing a strong answer from an empty one is what you actually observed. So be concrete from the first line: name the site type, the programme you saw, where the evidence came from, and who chose it. Evidence-based public health has a recognisable shape when it is being done, which gives you something to look for rather than a general impression to report. It involves a community assessment that identified the problem, a search for interventions with published effectiveness, adaptation of a chosen intervention to local context, and evaluation against a baseline that was measured before anything started. Both answers are acceptable and only vagueness is not, since the prompt has removed the usual place to hide it. Look for those four markers rather than for a general impression of rigour.

Look for those markers specifically. A site using a registry of proven interventions, adapting a curriculum rather than writing one, or holding a baseline measure it can point to, is doing evidence-based practice whether or not anyone uses the phrase. A site running a programme because it has always run it, or because a funder specified it, or because a staff member believes in it, is not, and saying so plainly is honest rather than critical. If your answer is the second, the challenges half of the prompt is where the substance sits, and the recognised barriers are worth naming from what you saw: funding tied to activities rather than outcomes, no evaluation capacity or analyst, a workforce without training in appraisal, political or community resistance to what the evidence recommends, and the plain fact that the evidence base for community interventions is thinner than for clinical ones. Give one example of each barrier you name.

Likely learning objectives

Recognise the observable markers of evidence-based public health practice.
Report an observation honestly rather than favourably.
Identify structural barriers to implementation from what you saw.
Write persuasively without leaning on citations.

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HLT 665 Topic 3 DQ 2 Has your practicum site put evidence-based public health (EBPH) into practice? If so, in what way? If not, what have been some challenges to implementing EBPH? No research citations are required for this discussion question.

Course-wide instructions that accompany this question

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What HLT 665 Topic 3 DQ 2 asks for

01An answer to whether your practicum site has put evidence-based public health into practice.
02An account of in what way, if it has.
03An account of the challenges to implementing it, if it has not.
04A response grounded in your practicum experience rather than in literature.