What Is the Hospitalized Patient's Place in Evidence-Based Practice

What is the hospitalized patient's place in evidence-based practice?

A) The patient is the recipient of the total of formal research evidence and the nurse's clinical expertise, and these represent his or her care plan.
B) The patient brings values to the clinical encounter, which the nurse considers in providing evidence-based care.
C) The patient's views of truth and reality must mirror the nurse's own worldviews for evidence-based practice to occur.
D) The patient is the focus of research, serving both as a recipient of evidence-based research and the subject of future evidence, based on data collected now from the patient.
E) The patient's needs and values merge with best research and clinical expertise to produce evidence-based practice.