A nursing educator is encountering resistance to efforts aimed at teaching evidence-based practice (EBP) in a nursing program. Which of the following statements provides the best rationale for teaching EBP?
A) EBP represents a more efficient use of educational and healthcare resources than alternative models.
B) EBP ensures that nursing practice is standardized despite institutional and geographic differences.
C) EBP is an essential component of providing effective and safe patient care.
D) EBP is the most efficient way of promoting new nursing knowledge.
Question 2
The nurse educator on an acute medicine unit is advocating for the use of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines on wound care in order to standardize and optimize the practice of the nurses on the unit.
Which of the following statements best describes clinical practice guidelines?
A) The result of replication studies of existing research by an impartial third party
B) A collection of authorized interventions that are required by law
C) A number of interventions that are the result of a large, publically-funded RCT
D) A group of practice recommendations that result from a rigorous review of the literature
The overlapping relationship among research, evidence-based practice
Linkages between nursing outcomes
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Four pieces of evidence that the reticular formation is involved in sleep.
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