Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing, 4th Edition
Paperback
Equip your students with the fundamentals of EBP and develop their practical skills to help them understand, evaluate, conduct and safely apply research!
Edited by experts Jean Craig and Dawn Dowding, and co-written by authors with extensive clinical and methodological expertise, Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing, 4th edition, provides a straightforward guide to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of research to improve quality of care and health outcomes.
Clearly written and rich with practical examples throughout, this market-leading text begins with foundational content and then explains how to ask the right question, search the literature, evaluate – and safely apply - evidence from qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods studies including systematic reviews. Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing, 4th edition, also explains how to use evidence-based guidelines and use research evidence in making clinical decisions with individual patients. A concluding chapter explores the challenges of embedding an evidence-based culture within a healthcare environment.
Designed not to overwhelm students who are new to the subject area, this market-leading text comes with a helpful array of online learning exercises for the reader together with a Test Bank, Powerpoint Slides and Image collection for instructors.
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- Written by evidence-based practice experts this book offers everything you need to enable your students to quickly get to grips with the fundamentals of EBP!
- Focuses on the practical skills required for identifying and interpreting research evidence to support healthcare provision.
- Provides detailed step-by-step guidance in formulating clinical questions, conducting successful database searches, and critically appraising a range of study designs.
- Shows how research evidence can be used for individualised patient care.
- Draws on a wealth of clinically relevant examples
- Discusses the strategic aspects of organisational change including the practical strategies that managers must take to embed EBP within an institutional culture.
- Instructor Resources include a Test bank, PowerPoints, and Image collection
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- New editorship brings an international dimension to the content
- Includes a new chapter on mixed methods studies
- Expanded discussion of the evaluation of qualitative systematic reviews
- Updated information on the implementation of guidelines and the current role of evidence in healthcare organisational policy
- Now published in full colour throughout
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1 Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing
2 How to ask the right question
3 Searching the literature
4 Using evidence from qualitative studies
5 Using evidence from quantitative studies
6 Using evidence from mixed methods studies
7 Using evidence from systematic reviews
8 Evidence-based guidelines
9 Using research evidence in making clinical decisions with individual patients
10 How can we develop an evidence-based culture?
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