A nursing instructor is evaluating whether a student nurse knows the difference between evidence-based nursing practice (EBNP) and evidence-based practice (EBP). Which comment by the student would indicate that further teaching is needed? EBNP:
a. concerns nursing actions, not medical ones.
b. considers the patient's needs and preferences based upon nursing theory and research.
c. utilizes nursing theory to determine process in nursing care.
d. targets medical decision making for the bulk of evidence-based care strategies.
D
Evidence-based practice (EBP) differs from evidence-based nursing practice (EBNP) in that EBP has a
medical focus and EBNP is practice performed by nurses that considers the individual patient's needs
and preferences based upon nursing theory and research.
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