The Evidence-Based Practice Manual for Nurses, with Pageburst Online Access

DESCRIPTION

Printed book plus Pageburst„¢ access. You will receive a printed book and access to the complete book content electronically. Pageburst„¢ enhances learning not only by bringing world class content to your fingertips but also by letting you add to it, annotate it, and categorize it in a way that suits you. Pageburst„¢ frees you to spend more time learning and less time searching.

This book describes each individual step of evidence-based practice from forming a question through to putting findings into practice and developing an evaluative culture within the organisation. It deals with each component of the process in sufficient breadth that the novice will understand most of the principles and in enough depth for it to be an aide-memoire and provide guidance to the professional who has already had some training in evidence-based practice. It uses multiple examples relevant to nursing, both within primary and secondary care, to illustrate points. Each chapter deals with specific aspects of the process and these are logically laid out to lead the reader through the process.

KEY FEATURES

• A practical, step-by-step guide
• Designed specifically for nurses
• Features extensive use of case studies and scenarios from a variety of clinical settings

NEW TO THIS EDITION

• Original papers included in online version
• Case studies now interactive
• Critical appraisals are all online with short exercises
• More emphasis on appraisal of guidelines, rather than how to write guidelines

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Section 1 The context for evidence-based practice
• 1 Evidence-based practice in nursing

• Section 2 Skills for evidence-based practice
• 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 systematic reviews
• 7 Evidence-based guidelines
• 8 Using research evidence in making clinical decisions with individual patients

• Section 3 The process of changing practice
• 9 Using research evidence to change how services are delivered
• 10 How can we develop an evidence-based culture?

• Glossary

AUTHOR

Edited by Jean V. Craig, MSc,PhD, RSCN, RGN, Research Advisor, NIHR Research Design Service for the East of England (Norfolk and Suffolk),Norwich Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK and Rosalind L. Smyth, MA, MBBS, MD, MRCP, DCH, FRCPCH, Brough Professor of Paediatric Medicine, University of Liverpool Institute of Child Health, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, UK