The nursing leadership of a university hospital wishes to implement evidence-based practice around the prevention of Clostridium difficile infection among inpatients. The team will be following the Model for Evidence-Based Practice Change.
Which of the team's activities is beyond the scope of the model?
A) Dissemination of the success or failure of the practice change
B) Engaging stakeholders in the early stages of the practice change
C) Conducting a literature review
D) Implementing a pilot study
Question 2
As a component of data collection for an evidence-based practice initiative, a nurse is constructing a document that is designed to measure the quality of working relationships between disciplines on the hospital unit.
Which of the following principles should guide the nurse's efforts?
A) The instrument should be written by a staff member who is not directly participating in the initiative.
B) The nurse should use a qualitative, rather than quantitative, approach.
C) Complex phenomena, such as human relationships, are not amenable to analysis by documents and surveys.
D) The instrument must be proven valid and reliable before it can be utilized.
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