BookBernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, RN, APRN-CNP, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN, Ellen Fineout-Overholt, PhD, RN, FNAP, FAAN.
Summary: "Enhance your clinical decision-making capabilities and improve patient outcomes through evidence-based practice. Develop the skills and knowledge you need to make evidence-based practice (EBP) an integral part of your clinical decision-making and everyday nursing practice with this proven, approachable text. Written in a straightforward, conversational style, Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare delivers real-world examples and meaningful strategies in every chapter to help you confidently meet today's clinical challenges and ensure positive patient outcomes"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Unit 1: Steps zero, one, two; getting started :
Making the case for evidence-based practice and cultivating a spirit of identity
Asking compelling clinical questions
Finding relevant evidence to answer clinical questions
Unit 1 making EBP real: A success story. Using an evidence-based, autonomous nurse protocol to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections in a long-term acute care facility
Unit 2: Step three: critically appraising evidence :
Critically appraising knowledge for clinical decision making
Critical appraising quantitative evidence for clinical decision making
Critically appraising qualitative evidence for clinical decision making
Integration of patient preferences and values and clinician expertise into evidence-based decision making
Advancing optimal care with robust clinical practice guidelines
Unit 2 making EBP real: A success story. Intradermal lidocaine intervention on the ambulatory unit : an evidence-based implementation project
Unit 3: Steps four and five: moving from evidence to sustainable practice change :
Implementing evidence in clinical settings
The role of outcomes and evidence-based quality improvement in enhancing and evaluating practice changes
Implementing the evidence-based practice competencies in clinical and academic settings to ensure healthcare quality and improved patient outcomes
Leadership strategies for creating and sustaining evidence-based practice organizations
Unit 3 making EBP real: A success story. Improving outcomes for depressed adolescents with the brief cognitive behavioral COPE intervention delivered in 30-minute outpatient visits
Unit 4: Creating and sustaining a culture and environment for evidence-based practice :
Innovation and evidence : a partnership in advancing best practice and high quality care
Models to guide implementation and sustainability of evidence-based practice
Creating a vision and motivating a change to evidence-based practice in individuals, teams, and organizations
Teaching evidence-based practice in academic settings
Teaching evidence-based practice in clinical settings
ARCC evidence-based practice mentors : the key to sustaining evidence-based practice
Unit 4 making EBP real: A success story. Mercy heart failure pathway
Unit 5: Step six: Disseminating evidence and evidence-based practice implementation outcomes :
Using evidence to influence health and organizational policy
Disseminating evidence through presentations, publications, health policy briefs, and the media
Unit 5 making EBP real: A success story. Research projects receive worldwide coverage
Unit 6: Generating external evidence and writing successful grant proposals :
Generating evidence through quantitative and qualitative research
Writing a successful grant proposal to fund research and evidence-based practice implementation projects
Ethical considerations for evidence implementation and evidence generation
Unit 6 making EBP real: Selected excerpts from a funded grant application. COPE/healthy lifestyles for teens : a school-based RCT
Appendix A: Question templates for asking PICOT questions
Appendix B: Rapid critical appraisal checklists
Appendix C: Evaluation table template and synthesis table examples for critical appraisal
Appendix I: ARCC model timeline for an EBP implementation project
Appendix J: Sample instruments to evaluate EBP in educational settings
Appendix K: Sample instruments to evaluate EBP in clinical settings.
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