Professional consciousness and pride facilitate evidence-based practice-The meaning of participating in a journal club based on clinical practice reflection.

Three themes are identified: (a) professional reflections are an oppressed aspect of daily nursing; (b) revealing nursing from the hidden; and (c) emerging consciousness in nursing. The study concludes that Reflexivity has the potential to integrate evidence-based knowledge and increase professional consciousness by reflection on clinical questions in an evidence-based context. Fundamental issues of nursing care are raised, and feelings of essential pride in nursing are facilitated. Thus, evidence-based nursing practice is embarked through a journal club based on the participant's narratives.