Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Midwifery, 5th Edition

• Helps students learn to read and understand research results as a foundation for evidence-based practice, explaining how to search the literature and rank it according to the strength of its evidence
• Features case studies, scenarios, and exercises that bring the subject to life, as well as a full-color format and glossary of useful terms
• Reflects a new, multidisciplinary focus, with advanced clinical practice and evidence application across professions and roles woven throughout all chapters
• Includes a new chapter on research literacy for readers who are just beginning to study this topic, as well as a new chapter on how research fits into contemporary practice, with content on interprofessional working and perspectives, quality improvement and service evaluation, and using evidence for learning
• Contains a chapter that addresses the more-strategic concepts of developing an organisational evidence-based culture and making evidence-based changes at the organisational level
• Provides helpful exercises online, including NCLEX questions for U.S. readers
• Clearly explains the process of critical appraisal (quality of the study, interpretation of the results, and applicability of the findings to individual patients), and offers practical advice on how to communicate risks and benefits to patients
• Offers enhanced readability with a refreshed focus on accessibility, practical application, and a logical, systematic presentation of both learning and application
• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows access to all of the text and figures, with the ability to search, customise content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

Evolve Instructor site with an image collection, slides, and test bank is available to instructors through their Elsevier sales rep or via request at https://evolve.elsevier.com

Section one: Research literacy
1. Evidence-based practice and healthcare
2. An introduction to using evidence
3. How to read a paper

Section two: Research methods
4. How to ask the right question
5. Searching the literature
6. Using evidence from qualitative studies
7. Using evidence from quantitative studies
8. Using evidence from mixed method studies
9. Using evidence of systematic reviews

Section three: Using evidence to inform practice
10. Evidence based guidelines
11. Using research evidence in making clinical decisions with individual patients
12. Using research for change

Michael Tatterton, Associate Professor and Professional Lead for Children and Young People's Nursing, University of Bradford, UK and Megan Fisher, Assistant Professor, Children and Young People's Nursing, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Facilitator, Faculty of Health Studies, University of Bradford, UK