The nurse is reading an article that states the intervention being proposed meets Stetler's level one evidence. How should the nurse interpret this information?
1. This is evidence based upon a single experimental study.
2. There is a great deal of evidence supporting this intervention.
3. Quasi-experimental studies were used to set this level of evidence.
4. This is the lowest level of evidence in Stetler's hierarchy.
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Rationale 1: A single experimental study provides the second level of evidence.
Rationale 2: The first level is meta-analysis studies that provide evidence from multiple studies.
Rationale 3: Quasi-experimental studies provide the third level of evidence.
Rationale 4: This is the highest level of evidence in this hierarchy.
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