The nurse needs to locate external evidence to support evidence-based practice interventions for a patient's care. What action indicates that the nurse maximized the use of technology to locate this evidence?
1. The nurse focused the search on appropriate and applicable nursing diagnoses.
2. The nurse identified specific data points when searching a clinical guidelines website.
3. The nurse input medical subject heading terms when searching through a database.
4. The nurse emphasized the expected patient outcomes when searching through a database.
Correct Answer: 3
Effective literature searching is a necessary foundation to locating appropriate external evidence. Selection of an appropriate database is central to efficient literature searching. Use of medical subject heading (MeSH) terms expedites the searching process. Focusing on nursing diagnoses, data points, or patient outcomes may or may not provide the nurse with the needed information.
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