The nurse is engaged in a process approach of reviewing, interpreting, critiquing, and evaluating research and other relevant literature for direct application to patient care
When asked by a coworker, the nurse explains that this process is called: a. evidence-based medicine. c. evidence-based care.
b. evidence-based practice. d. critical thinking.
C
Evidence-based care is the process approach to collecting, reviewing, interpreting, critiquing, and
evaluating research and other relevant literature for direct application to patient care. Evidence-based
medicine is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions
about the care of individual patients. Evidence-based practice is about clinical competence in the
individual care of patients, decision analysis, human value, use of information technology for best
available clinical evidence from systematic research, and stewardship of resources. Evidence-based
care should be viewed as the highest standard of care so long as critical thinking and sound clinical
judgment support it.
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