Throughout the busy day of patient assignments, medication administrations, and implementation of telephone orders from the on-call physician, every working nurse experiences a time where he or she stops and contemplates, “is this the best way to do this?” or “why does the body respond like this?”. A part of growing as a nurse and improving nurse practices, is by asking questions. For this discussion board, I will be defining research in nursing and evidence-based practice in nursing along with a brief example of each by providing a sample research question and a sample clinical question. LoBiondo-Wood and Haber (2013), defines research in nursing as the process of collecting systemic, rigorous, and logical information to answer a specific
