Using Implementation Science to Promote Patient Safety in Complex Care Environments

Nursing practice includes delivering high-quality evidence-based interventions that promote patient safety and optimal outcomes, yet changing practice is not easy, often quite delayed if it occurs at all, and hard to sustain. Using systematic approaches and models to change can promote effective adoption, uptake, and sustainment of a new practice in healthcare settings. Implementation science is a field that has emerged to help reduce the knowledge to practice gap and accelerate the uptake of research findings and other practice evidence. Applying TMF and implementation strategies can help nurses adopt evidence-based practices that can promote patient safety and optimal patient outcomes.