Tensions and contradictions in nurses’ perspectives of evidence-based practice
Journal of Nursing ManagementPublished 10 April 2008
Gary Rolfe, Jeremy Segrott, Sue Jordan
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The understandings of EBP are examined in depth to enable managers, educationalists and policy makers to implement it more effectively and to develop nursing practice and nursing knowledge.
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Unless it is incorporated into national or local guidelines, research has relatively little impact on practice. To develop nursing practice and nursing knowledge, nurse leaders need to foster the synthesis of experiential knowledge and published research, in accordance with the founding principles of the EBP movement.
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