Promoting Advanced Practice Nurse Buy-In For Evidence-Based Practice: An Apn Research Guide

In order to promote safety and progress in health care, advanced practice nurses (APNs) need to base practice on best evidence. Evidence-based practice remains more an ideal rather than a reality. This article presents as APN Research Guide for reading and critiquing quantitative research to assist APNs to make clinical decisions based on the appraisal of the evidence for relevance, safety, and applicability to their practice. Quantitative and qualitative data from nurses indicate the critique enhances their understanding of the quality and utility of research. The step-by-step process of doing the critique in small parts builds confidence as each section is completed. Finally, scoring the research article on a 100 point scale helps APNs determine the quality of the research.