EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE

38373EVIDENCE BASED PPRACTICE
Background Information:
Evidence Based Practice (EBP) is the integration of clinical expertise, patient values, and the best research evidence into the decision making process for patient care. Clinical expertise refers to the clinician’s cumulated experience, education and clinical skills. The patient brings to the encounter his or her own personal preferences and unique concerns, expectations, and values. The best research evidence is usually found in clinically relevant research that has been conducted using sound methodology.
1). Identify strategies that nurse leaders can use to make evidence-based practice central to the culture of nursing care.
2). Why is it every nurse’s responsibility to support evidence-based care?
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