For psychiatric nurses, an essential part of outcome measurement is the:
a. development of practice guidelines.
b. systematic review of research literature.
c. systematic use of reliable patient-rating scales.
d. identification of the core knowledge and skills of psychiatric nurses.
C
Each of the options listed above is important to evidence-based nursing practice, but only the use of rating scales directly relates to outcome measurement.
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