Implementing the new essential evidence-based practice competencies in real-world clinical and academic settings: Moving from evidence to action in improving healthcare quality and patient outcomes

Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 67-69

  Melnyk, Bernadette Mazurek ^a   Gallagher Ford, Lynn ^a  

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Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; METHODS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TRENDS;

EID: 84963948804     PISSN: 1545102X     EISSN: 17416787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/wvn.12089     Document Type: Editorial

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