The 2020 International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife is an important opportunity to marry nursing science and health policy globally. Nurses and midwives are demonstrating strong intent towards evidence-based practice but often feel they lack the skills to implement it. Examples are provided of ways in which general and advanced practice nurses have succeeded in bringing evidence into practice and then into local and global policy.

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