The approach a nurse uses to make choices based upon the idea that research-based care improves outcomes is utilizing:
a. Past experience c. Intuition
b. Trial and error d. Clinical deci-sion-making
D
Clinical decision-making is an approach to making choices based on the idea that research-based care improves outcomes. Past experience, trial and error, and intuition are considered traditional sources of nursing knowledge which are not likely to be as effective as evidence-based practice.
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