More than ever, health care organizations seek nursing graduates, empowered through education, who are able to critique existing practices and initiate evidence-based changes resulting in better patient outcomes. This ...

Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines allow generalist nurses to benefit from the scholarship and clinical expertise of others. Guidelines summarize the available evidence about a clinical problem and make recommendations ...

Research from qualitative traditions is often ignored as a resource for evidence-based practice. Findings from qualitative research, however, are of particular benefit to generalist nurses. Human responses to health concerns ...

Evidence to support the effectiveness of therapies commonly compares the outcomes between a group of individuals who received the therapy and a group of individuals who did not. Nurses must be able to interpret the statistics ...

All clinicians who wish to apply evidence to practice should consider how to do so most effectively and how to incorporate patient preferences into their decision-making. Because nursing practice is commonly embedded in ...

In an efficient search for evidence to address clinical questions, clinicians consult trustworthy collections of critically evaluated evidence when those resources exist. The “5S” hierarchy organizes these resources in ...

Evidence to support the effectiveness of therapies commonly compares the outcomes between a group of individuals who received the therapy and a group of individuals who did not. Nurses must be able to determine how well ...

Systematic reviews are comprehensive reviews of quantitative research literature conducted according to explicit guidelines established in advance. The strengths of systematic reviews as sources of evidence for practice ...

Ethical dilemmas about care arise when the persons involved in care decisions have conflicting values. Evidence-based practice clarifies the nature of some ethical concerns about care because it sets three explicit values ...

An evidence-based practice change at a radiation oncology center in a large academic medical center was designed to reduce the severity of oral mucositis in adults receiving radiation treatment for head and neck cancer. ...