A.   Set standards of care

B.   Increase hospital revenue

C.   Orient new nurses

D.   Protect against law suits

A.   EBN was started by physicians involved in Evidence-based Medicine

B.   The United States is the world leader in EBN

C.   EBN is the first initiative by Nursing to apply research findings to clinical practice

D.   EBN is the most recent development in Nursing’s long history of applying research findings to clinical practice

A.   Information from Wikipedia

B.   Research findings

C.   Quality monitoring data

D.   Expert opinion

A.   An evidence-based clinical practice guideline

B.   A research study report

C.   A systematic review

D.   An article about how to do clinical research

A.   Test a hypothesis about a nursing intervention

B.   Describe how a healthcare subculture works

C.   Develop a theory

D.   Understand the experience of persons

A.   The findings of studies with statistically significant results

B.   The findings of original studies, conclusions of systematic reviews, and recommendations of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines

C.   The findings of original studies with large samples

D.   The conclusions of meta-analyses

A.   The findings of a single, original study should be brought together and integrated with the findings of other studies of the same issue

B.   The findings of a single, original study are dependable if quantitative analysis was done

C.   The findings of a single, original study are dependable if the sample size was large

D.   The findings of a single, original study are meaningless

A.   Specification of the target population

B.   A description of how the sample was obtained

C.   A quality performance target

D.   Conclusions or Discussion

A.   Formats of research articles are identical from journal to journal

B.   Researchers choose a format that best fits their study

C.   There are internationally agreed upon formats

D.   Formats of research articles are similar from journal to journal but vary somewhat

A.   Discussion

B.   Results

C.   Introduction

D.   Throughout the article