title: Understanding research and evidence-based practice: from knowledge generation to translation.
abstract: Health care today requires an evidence-based environment where nurses deliver increasingly safer, higher-quality care. To obtain this environment, nurses must use the best evidence in their practice. As the largest deliverer of health care in the United States, nurses are vital in the participation of improving safety and quality care. Through research and evidence-based practice, all nurses can be leaders in promoting quality and safe care.
authors.affiliation: UCLA Health System, University of California-Los Angeles, 924 Westwood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. jmensik@mednet.ucla.edu
authors.forename: Jennifer S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Mensik
mesh_terms: D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D006801:Humans; D015399:Nursing Research; D014481:United States