POSTMODERNISM: EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE IN NURSING: A NARRATIVE REVIEW

Postmodernism is an intellectual, social, cultural, artistic, and moral evolutionist movement in the contemporary era. Nursing theorists consider postmodernism essential for formulating and presenting a care program because rethinking, critical thinking, and evidence-based training and practice are the main concepts of this philosophical thinking. The present study reviewed the available literature and evidence about postmodernism as an evidence-based approach to nursing.

In this study, a non-systematic narrative review method was used. Articles were searched using the keywords Postmodern, Postmodernism, Evidence-Based Practice, and Nursing. The search for Persian and English articles was done in the internal databases of SID and Magiran and external databases of PubMed, ProQuest, and Science Direct without time and methodological limitations. A total of 207 articles were found, and after reviewing the articles, 18 studies were evaluated and analyzed based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria for data extraction.

The results showed that the five features of postmodernism in evidence-based nursing science include "decentralization in care practice," "attention to patient values," "strengthening decision-making and clinical reasoning," "reflection and critical thinking in evidence," and "interaction and communication therapy."

Since the postmodernist theory shares many concepts with the evidence-based approach, this point of view can be used to increase the standards of education and care in nursing. Therefore, it is suggested that respected nurses consider using this approach. Also, professors, clinical nursing trainers, and nursing managers should pay more attention to applying this important approach.