NMs Empowering Nurses for EBPI
While most NMs thought that the direct responsibility for
EBPI lay with individual nurses and charge nurses, they
did consider that they played a role in empowering, facilitating,
and providing autonomy for nurses to engage with
EBPI. NMs described this role in active terms, but this was
described by others asmore passive: more “hands off” than
“hands on.” NMs’ facilitative, enabling or empowering actions
were not clear to other managers or to charge nurses,
with neither being able to explain or provide examples of
the ways in which these played out: “The Nurse Director
is supportive in theory about ideas I’ve had for getting evidence
into practice, but as to what. . . any of the managers
actually do to support EBP in my area, my mind draws a
blank” (NM/Clinical Nurse Specialist, Case D).