Budgetary investment in evidence-based practice by chief nurses and stronger EBP cultures associated with less nursing turnover and better patient outcomes.

Bernadette Mazurek MelnykAndreanna Pavan HsiehJeffery MessingerBindu ThomasLinda ConnorLynn Gallagher-Ford

Published in: Worldviews on evidence-based nursing (2023)

Chief nurse executives and CNOs allocate very little of their budgets to EBP. When CNEs and CNOs invest more in EBP, patient, nursing, and EBP outcomes improve. System-wide implementation of EBP, which includes appropriate EBP budget allocation, is necessary for improvements in hospital quality indicators and nursing turnover.

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