“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts” - Eleanor Roosevelt. Traditional approaches to health care are being revised through the evidence-based practice (EBP) process. It is a multi-step process that studies the methods used to collect research data integrated with scientific theories. The purpose of this article is to explain the role of EBP and the value of EBP in various clinical settings. EBP allows nurses to “make clinical decisions using the best available research evidence, clinical expertise, and patient preferences” (Razmus 2008). The EBP paradigm involves an organizational culture designed into three components, known as the context of care, that form a clinical decision, which results in high-quality patient outcomes. The three components of the context of care include research evidence and evidence-based theories, clinical expertise, and patient preferences and values. Research evidence and evidence-based theories provide information for nursing practice. Nursing research considers people, health, nursing practice, and the environment as top priorities that nurses can use to generate new knowledge or validate and verify, as well as modify, existing knowledge that affects nursing practice . If nursing practices were devoid of research, they would remain dependent on tradition, authority, traces and errors, personal experiences, intuition and borrowed evidence. Nurses must be equipped with the skills to read, evaluate, and apply nursing research to advance higher quality treatment in care. Clinical expertise requires nurses to use logical reasoning to think critically and make decisions. Nursing matriarch Florence Nightingale was the first nurse to create...... middle of paper ... nursing. This process allows health care providers to use critical thinking when comparing scientific findings to traditional nursing interventions. Overall, EBP advances the healthcare system and benefits healthcare industries, staff, and most importantly, patients. Works CitedMelnyk, B., Fineout-Overholt, E., Stillwell, S. and Williamson, K. (2009). Sparking a Spirit of Inquiry: An Essential Foundation for Evidence-Based Practice. American Journal of Nursing, 109(11), 50-51. doi:10.1097/01.NAJ.0000363354.53883.58Melnyk, B., Fineout-Overholt, E., Stillwell, S., & Williamson, K. (2010). The seven steps to evidence-based practice. American Journal of Nursing, 110(1), 50-53. doi:10.1097/01.NAJ.0000366056.06605.d2Razmus, I. (2008). What you need to know about EBP. Nursing Management, 39(7), 10. doi:10.1097/01.NUMA.0000326560.16296.69