Evidence-Based Practice
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, Collect the best evidence- what kind and includes • Search for evidence!
• Evidence includes but is not limited to: agency policy and procedure manuals,
quality improvement data, existing clinical practice guidelines, agency experts,
staff educators, risk managers, infection control nurses, and peer reviewed articles
(specifically within the most recent 5 years from the present date)
Critically appraise the evidence you gather • The most difficult step in the EBP process
• Involves evaluation, determining if information is valuable and can be easily
applied, and if there is enough evidence for making a nursing practice change
• Thorough review of elements included in evidence-based articles
Integrate the evidence • How will you incorporate the evidence into practice?
• Integrate evidence with use of teaching tools, clinical practice guidelines,
policies and procedures, and new assessment documentation tools
• Consider staff support and available resources
• Conduct a pilot study and attempt to answer your PICOT question
Evaluate and share outcomes • Did it work? Is it effective?
• Communicate the results to various groups of nurses or other care providers
(facility nursing practice council or research committee)
PICO four-step process P - population of interest
I - intervention
C - comparison
O - outcome
Utilization of the research process • Identification of a researchable problem
• Review of the literature
• Formulation of the research question or hypothesis
• Design of the study
• Implementation of the study
• Drawing conclusions based on findings
• Discussion of clinical implications
• Dissemination of findings
Identification of a researchable problem • Sources:
* clinical situations
* the literature
* theories
• Repeat the study or design a similar one
• Test theoretical models
Review of the literature • Comprehensive and covers all relevant research
• Essential to locate similar or related studies that have already been completed
and on which a new study can build
• Answer the question "what have other researchers and theorists written about
this problem?"
Two major categories in designing study experimental (require quantitative methodology)
nonexperimental (can be quantitative or qualitative methodology)
in Nursing 2026 | Study
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Updated 2026 Questions and Answers
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, Collect the best evidence- what kind and includes • Search for evidence!
• Evidence includes but is not limited to: agency policy and procedure manuals,
quality improvement data, existing clinical practice guidelines, agency experts,
staff educators, risk managers, infection control nurses, and peer reviewed articles
(specifically within the most recent 5 years from the present date)
Critically appraise the evidence you gather • The most difficult step in the EBP process
• Involves evaluation, determining if information is valuable and can be easily
applied, and if there is enough evidence for making a nursing practice change
• Thorough review of elements included in evidence-based articles
Integrate the evidence • How will you incorporate the evidence into practice?
• Integrate evidence with use of teaching tools, clinical practice guidelines,
policies and procedures, and new assessment documentation tools
• Consider staff support and available resources
• Conduct a pilot study and attempt to answer your PICOT question
Evaluate and share outcomes • Did it work? Is it effective?
• Communicate the results to various groups of nurses or other care providers
(facility nursing practice council or research committee)
PICO four-step process P - population of interest
I - intervention
C - comparison
O - outcome
Utilization of the research process • Identification of a researchable problem
• Review of the literature
• Formulation of the research question or hypothesis
• Design of the study
• Implementation of the study
• Drawing conclusions based on findings
• Discussion of clinical implications
• Dissemination of findings
Identification of a researchable problem • Sources:
* clinical situations
* the literature
* theories
• Repeat the study or design a similar one
• Test theoretical models
Review of the literature • Comprehensive and covers all relevant research
• Essential to locate similar or related studies that have already been completed
and on which a new study can build
• Answer the question "what have other researchers and theorists written about
this problem?"
Two major categories in designing study experimental (require quantitative methodology)
nonexperimental (can be quantitative or qualitative methodology)
