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Evidence-Based Practice

What is Evidence-Based Practice?

Evidence-based practice consists of five steps:

  1. Ask a searchable clinical question
  2. Find the best evidence to answer the question
  3. Appraise the evidence
  4. Apply the evidence with clinical expertise, taking the patient's wants/needs into consideration
  5. Evaluate the effectiveness / efficiency of the process.

Source: Strauss, S. E. Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM.  New York: Churchill Livingstone, 2005.

Evidence-Based Practice: What It Is and What It Is Not

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Evidence-Based Practice: What it Is and What it Is Not (20:49)
This program presents important concepts about the relationship between nursing practice and nursing research, and how evidence-based practice influences decisions, interventions and evaluation of nursing care.

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Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Model