Exam 15: Evidence-Based Practice

A nurse working in a community setting should apply evidence-based practice methods that are described by:

Which type of research is defined as the gold standard of evidence in evidence-based practice?

A nurse providing care in the 1970s would have used which process as the guide for making clinical decisions?

Which are barriers to implementation of evidence-based practice? Select all that apply.

A nurse uses clinical experience and client preference to guide clinical decision making when using:

What information will a nurse find when reading a systematic review?

Evidence-based public health is:

A nurse is grading the strength of evidence when critiquing a research study.Which domains will the nurse need to consider?

The term evidence-based was first used in:

A public health nurse uses a published systematic review to determine which exercises should be incorporated into a newly developed older adult exercise program.Which resource would most likely contain this information?

A nurse makes clinical judgments based upon trial and error and past clinical experiences.What problem can result from using these data sources in clinical decision making?

When looking at evidence-based practice to support the methods used to facilitate smoking cessation,which type of evidence would be the best for the nurse to examine?

A public health nurse would like to incorporate evidence-based practice into the clinical practice at the health department.According to Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt et al.,the first step in this process is:

It would be important for a nurse researcher to use blinding when:

A summary of the research evidence that relates to a specific question and to the effects of an intervention is: