The National League of Nursing (NLN) expects the practical/vocational nurse's main role in evidence-based practice to be to:
a. challenge the status quo.
b. identify questions that need to be studied.
c. formulate evidence-based protocols.
d. question the basis for nursing actions.
ANS: D
Practical/vocational nurses question the basis for nursing actions by considering research, evidence, tradition, and patient preference. Associate degree/diploma nurses challenge the status quo. Nurses with a baccalaureate degree identify questions that need to be studied. Nurses with a practice doctorate formulate evidence-based protocols.
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