Evidence Based Practice Case Study

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Hello everyone, my name is Rachelle Mulles and nursing is my second degree. I pursued nursing after I felt I needed to know and do more while caring for my sick grandmother. I am currently training to become a skills laboratory coordinator in a career college and would like to teach full time once I receive my Master’s degree.
Evidence based practice is a systematic method of finding a solution to health care problems through the integration of the best evidence from research and patient care data in combination with patient preferences and the clinical expertise of the nurse (Melnyk, Fineout-Overholt, Stillwell & Williamson, 2009). In the case study, the question is asking about how the removal of a pulmonary arterial catheter influences

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