Looking at and understanding how nursing is influenced by the differences between the focus of evidenced-based practice and the focus of research is a basic fundamental that applies not only to nursing but many different aspect of other fields like trading stocks in stock market, teaching to being an auto-mechanic. (Schmidt and Brown, 2012) define evidenced-based practice (EBP) as “practice based on the best available evidence, patient preferences, and clinical judgment” (p.4). Research is defined by Schmidt and Brown as “systematic study that leads to new knowledge and/or solutions to problems or questions” (p.14). Therefore you can say that they go hand in hand because, evidenced-based practice can be looked at as the how and you can then
