Nurse to Nurse: Evidence-Based Practice. Expert Interventions (Includes Full-Text Pda Download)

OVERVIEW

A unique "mentor in a pocket" handbook covering one of the most important trends in nursing today

Includes full-text PDA download

A Doody's Core Title!

4 STAR DOODY'S REVIEW!
"This is a wonderful contribution to nursing. It provides nurses with clear usable handbook for incorporating evidence-based nursing into practice. It assists nurses in growing from strictly understanding evidence-based practice to identifying practice issues and formulating a plan for executing the model." -- Doody's Review Service

From the co-creator of the Model for Change to Evidence-Based Practice comes a concise guide that delivers peer-to-peer advice on how you can integrate evidence-based practice into your daily routines and patient care.

Learn the six steps to evidence-based practice change:

• Assess the need for change in practice
• Locate the best evidence
• Critically analyze the evidence
• Design practice change
• Implement and evaluate change in practice
• Integrate and maintain change in practice

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

June H. Larrabee, PhD, RN
Professor
West Virginia University School of Nursing
Clinical Investigator
West Virginia University Hospitals
Morgantown, WV

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
Chapter 1. The Journey to Excellence in Patient Care
Chapter 2. The Model for Evidence-Based Practice Change
Chapter 3. Step 1: Assess the Need for Change in Practice
Chapter 4. Step 2: Locate the Best Evidence
Chapter 5. Step 3: Critically Analyze the Evidence
Chapter 6. Step 4: Design Practice Change
Chapter 7. Step 5: Implement and Evaluate Change in Practice
Chapter 8. Step 6: Integrate and Maintain Change in Practice
Glossary
Index