Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource, 5th Edition

by Michael J. Tatterton and Megan J. Fisher

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ISBN: 9780443384530

Page Count: 225

Imprint: Elsevier

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Using a clear, easy-to-read writing style, Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses, Midwives & Allied Health Professionals, 5th Edition, conveniently breaks down the skills required for healthcare professionals into manageable components. Reflecting the multidisciplinary team dynamic that has become prevalent in the recent decade, this fully revised text teaches how to find, critically read, and interpret a range of research studies, helping you discover optimal approaches toward helping people reach decisions that are informed by the best available evidence.

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Key Features
- Helps you 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 those 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 online exercises
- 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
Contents

1 Evidence-Based Practice and Healthcare
2 Research Literacy
3 Anatomy of a Paper
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 Mixed and Multiple Methods in Research
9 Evidence Synthesis: Systematic Reviews and Meta-syntheses
10 Evidence-Based Guidelines
11 Using Research Evidence to Make Clinical Decisions With Individual People
12 Using Research for Change
Authors

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