Tara, the unit manager, is telling her colleague about her recent project, which involves seeking the most effective approaches to incontinence care, with the intention of adopting evi-dence-supported approaches on her dementia care unit
Her colleague suggests that translation of research into practice is: a. Less important than knowledge-generating research, which is required to advance the nursing profession.
b. A priority of all healthcare practitioners to improve patient care.
c. Characterized by lack of knowledge about how to use evidence to guide prac-tice.
d. So difficult that it is useless to begin the query in the first place.
B
The National Institutes of Health identified translational research, or getting research into the hands of practitioners to improve patient care, as a priority.
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