The First U.S. Study on Nurses’ Evidence-Based Practice Competencies Indicates Major Deficits That Threaten Healthcare Quality, Safety, and Patient Outcomes

Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 16-25

  Melnyk, Bernadette Mazurek ^a,b   Gallagher Ford, Lynn ^b   Zellefrow, Cindy ^b   Tucker, Sharon ^c   Thomas, Bindu ^c   Sinnott, Loraine T ^b   Tan, Alai ^b  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence Based Practice   (United States)

Author keywords

advanced practice nurses; competency; evidence based practice; nurses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED NURSING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SAFETY; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EVIDENCE-BASED NURSING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85039149810     PISSN: 1545102X     EISSN: 17416787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/wvn.12269     Document Type: Article

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