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✔ Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is a comprehensive decision-making approach that combines high-quality research, clinical expertise, and patient preferences to ensure individualized, effective, and ethical care.

✔ The nurse’s role in EBP includes applying current evidence, exercising clinical judgment, and respecting the values and cultural beliefs of the client, all of which support holistic, patient-centered care.

✔ This model promotes interdisciplinary collaboration, enhances health outcomes, and reflects professional nursing standards that align with lifelong learning and quality improvement.

Incorrect Options:

• "A. Evidence-based practice should focus solely on the advancement of the nursing profession while prohibiting involvement of other healthcare disciplines."
• EBP is interdisciplinary by nature, encouraging collaboration with all healthcare team members, not professional isolation.
• "B. Evidence-based practice replaces continuous quality improvement."
• These are complementary processes, not replacements—EBP supports clinical decision-making, while CQI focuses on systematic improvement.
• "D. Evidence-based practice began with medicine and assists in determining which medical models can be applied in nursing practice."
• While EBP has roots in medicine, it is now distinct in nursing and not limited to adopting medical models.