20 questions: Evidence-based practice or sacred cow?

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Julie Miller is a staff development educator for critical care at the Trinity Mother Frances Hospitals and Clinics in Tyler, Tex., and president and founder of Paws to Learn in Whitehouse, Tex. Denise Drummond Hayes is senior clinical editor of Nursing2015. Katherine W. Carey is executive editor of Nursing2015.

Published: August 2015

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