Improving the quality of health care requires the utilization of evidence-based practice or guidelines, protocols, and interventions strongly supported by research. Doing so ensures that care is effective, efficient, and safe as well as consistent with ethical principles that uphold the rights of patients. Adopting evidence-based practices entails the process of research utilization that facilitates the transformation of knowledge and behaviors towards change. The steps in the process include discovering primary research, summarizing the evidence, translating the evidence into guidelines, integrating the evidence into practice, and evaluating the outcomes (Stevens, 2013). Research utilization applies in promoting exclusive breastfeeding during Continue reading...