Evidence-based practice in nursing & healthcare : a guide to best practice / Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, Ellen Fineout-Overholt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melnyk, Bernadette Mazurek.

Contributor:

Fineout-Overholt, Ellen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evidence-based nursing.

Evidence-based medicine.

Evidence-Based Nursing--methods.

Nurse Clinicians.

Medical Subjects:

Evidence-Based Nursing--methods.

Nurse Clinicians.

Genre:

CD-ROMs.

Physical Description:

xxii, 599 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Evidence-based practice in nursing and healthcare

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2011]

System Details:

System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: PC or MAC.

Summary:

Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "[a] variety of tools ... to assist students, clinicians, and educators in their quest for delivering evidence-based care to achieve best outcomes."--P. [xvi].

From the Publisher: This best-selling, user-friendly resource to evidence-based practice serves as a guide to implementing evidence-based practice in nursing and healthcare. "Real-life" examples assist the reader in actualizing important concepts and overcoming barriers in the implementation of evidence-based care.

Contents:

Unit 1: Steps Zero, One, Two: Getting Started

1: Making the case for evidence-based practice and cultivating a spirit of inquiry

2: Asking compelling, clinical questions

3: Finding relevant evidence to answer clinical questions

Unit 2: Step Three: Critically Appraising Evidence

4: Critically appraising knowledge for clinical decision making

5: Critically appraising quantitative evidence for clinical decision making

6: Critically appraising qualitative evidence for clinical decision making

Unit 3: Steps Four And Five: Moving From Evidence To Action

7: Patient concerns, choices, and clinical judgment in evidence-based practice

8: Advancing optimal care with clinical practice guidelines

9: Implementing evidence in clinical settings

10: Role of outcomes in evaluating practice change

Unit 4: Creating And Sustaining A Culture For Evidence-Based Practice

11: Models to guide implementation of evidence-based practice

12: Creating a vision and motivating a change to evidence-based practice in individuals, teams, and organizations

13: Teaching evidence-based practice in academic settings

14: Teaching evidence-based practice in clinical settings

15: ARCC evidence-based practice mentors: the key to sustaining evidence-based practice

Unit 5: Step 6: Disseminating Evidence And Evidence-Based Practice Implementation Outcomes

16: Disseminating evidence through publications, presentations, health policy briefs, and the media

Unit 6: Next Steps: Generating External Evidence

17: Generating evidence through quantitative research

18: Generating evidence through qualitative research

19: Writing a successful grant proposal to fund research and evidence-based practice implementation projects

20: Ethical considerations for evidence implementation and evidence generation

Appendix A: Case examples: Evidence-based care and outcomes in depressed adults and in critically ill children

Appendix B: Template for asking PICOT questions

Appendix C: Walking the walk and talking the talk: an appraisal guide for qualitative evidence

Appendix D: Rapid critical appraisal checklists

Appendix E: Templates for evaluation and synthesis tables for conducting an evidence review

Appendix F: Example of a slide show for a 20-minute paper presentation

Appendix G: Example of a health policy brief

Appendix H: Example of a press release

Appendix I: Example of a successful media dissemination effort: when rocking chairs in nursing homes make the news

Appendix J: Example of an approved consent form for a study

Appendix K: Data and safety monitoring plan for an intervention study

Appendix L: System-wide ARCC evidence-based practice mentor role description

Appendix M: Timeline for an ARCC EBP implementation project

Appendix N: Instruments to evaluate organizational culture and readiness for system-wide integration of EBP, EBP beliefs, and EBP implementation with psychometrics

Glossary

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781605477787

1605477788

OCLC:

539086897