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Evidence-Based Nursing

"Evidence-Based Nursing" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A way of providing nursing care that is guided by the integration of the best available scientific knowledge with nursing expertise. This approach requires nurses to critically assess relevant scientific data or research evidence, and to implement high-quality interventions for their nursing practice.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Evidence-Based Nursing" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Evidence-Based Nursing" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 14 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2009 and 2020
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.