When using available evidence, the nurse must be aware of what two major challenges?
a. Balancing the benefits and harm to justify a recommendation of the evidence
b. Reviewing the body of knowledge and evaluating for clinical decision making
c. Recommending or not recommending the research evidence for clinical practice
d. Reviewing the clinical trials and grading the research according to the AHRQ scale
B
The two major challenges are (1) reviewing the rapidly growing body of scientific literature and (2)
evaluating and transforming the literature in order to be useful for clinical decision making. Balancing
the benefits and harm is a criterion for evaluating research. Recommending or not recommending the
research is also a criterion for the evaluation process. Reviewing and grading research according to the
AHRQ scale is a criterion for the evaluation process.
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