“…Over the past two decades, federal agencies such as the Institute of Medicine (Institute of Medicine & Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, 2001) and Agency for Health Research and Quality (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2015) have emphasized the importance of using evidence-based practice to direct nursing care for all patients (Melnyk et al, 2004) as it is known to improve patient outcomes (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2011; Thoroddsen et al, 2010). Although a growing body of research exists in nurses’ perceptions and implementation of evidence-based practice (Grønvik, Ødeg\a ard, & Bjørkly, 2016; Sredl et al, 2011; Verloo, Desmedt, & Morin, 2016), few scholars have studied the important component of evidence-based practice —the clinician’s expertise (Melnyk et al, 2004; Rycroft-Malone et al, 2004). A clinician’s expertise is comprised of their evidence-based perceived knowledge of nursing practice and their beliefs about providing this care (Grol, 1997; Herling, 2000; Tonelli & Guyatt, 2017).…”