Multiple Reports Such as to Err Is Human: Building a Safer

Multiple reports such as To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System (2000) , Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century (2001) , and Priority Areas for National Action: Transforming Health Care Quality (2003) have supported evidence-based practice in the past decade. Which statement best summarizes evidence-based nursing practice?

A) We must continue to cling to "the way we've always done it."
B) We have spent billions of dollars each year researching new treatments and have translated that knowledge into clinical practice.
C) We are not translating the knowledge that we are gaining into clinical practice.
D) We have continued to spend more than a trillion dollars a year providing care and do translate that capacity into improved clinical practice.