The responsibility of developing the unit culture for evidence-based practice belongs to the:
a. staff nurses.
b. unit manager.
c. medical director.
d. chief executive officer.
B
The strategies discussed in building an organizational infrastructure for evidence-based practice are effective in developing the culture, building the capacity, and sustaining the vision at both the organizational and unit level. The nurse manager is responsible, parallel to the nurse executive, for developing the unit culture.
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