Clinical Practice Guidelines
 

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Clinical practice guidelines use available evidence to develop recommendations that guide practice to improve patient care. 

Select a clinical practice guideline, based on your area of interest, from one of the web sites below or another site. Describe the following information from the guideline you selected. 

• Identify the name of the clinical guideline and date developed.
• Identify the population.
• Identify 3 recommendations found in the guideline.
• Identify the grade or level of recommendation for the three recomendations identified and describe what the assigned grade or level means.
• How can you use the information from the guideline in your practice?

Suggested Clinical Practice Guideline sites:

https://www.guidelinecentral.com/summaries/specialties/nursing/

https://www.ena.org/practice-resources/resource-library/clinical-practice-guidelines

https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/BrowseRec/Index

https://guidelines.ecri.org/