In planning appropriate interventions for the client you are assigned to work with during your mental health nursing clinical the next morning, you decide to do a specific intervention based on a single research article you found on line about the
outcome of a specific intervention. Were you to carry out your plan the next morning during clinical, you would be demonstrating:
A) Evidence-based practice.
B) Research utilization.
C) Use of clinical pathways.
D) Use of psychiatric diagnoses.
B
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A) An increased hemoglobin and hematocrit B) A decreased hemoglobin and hematocrit C) A decreased mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) D) An increased MCV and MCHC
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