-A Cardiac Nurse Wants to Know About the Best Practices

question 13

Multiple Choice

-A cardiac nurse wants to know about the best practices to prevent pneumonia after open-heart surgery.In what order do the steps of the evidence-based practice (EBP) process take place?
1) Asking "burning" clinical questions
2) Making recommendations for practice improvement
3) Implementing accepted recommendations
4) Finding the very best evidence to try to answer those questions
5) Evaluating outcomes
6) Critically appraising and synthesizing the relevant evidence

• A) 5, 1, 4, 6, 3, 2
• B) 1, 5, 4, 3, 2, 6
• C) 1, 4, 6, 2, 3, 5
• D) 5, 2, 1, 4, 6, 3

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