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Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice, Third Edition, International Edition Bernadette Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/NPP, FAAN 978-1-4698-5573-8 • September 2014 • Softbound • 7” x 10” • 656 pp. • 50Tables

Develop the skills and knowledge you need to make evidence- based practice an integral part of your clinical decision making and everyday nursing practice with Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare . Written in a friendly, conversational style, this Third Edition of the authors’ gold standard textbook covers all the information you need to use evidence-based practice to improve patient outcomes. Real world examples and meaningful strategies in every chapter show you how to take a clinical issue from inquiry to a sustainable solution that drives a preferred standard of care. Features • NEW! To improve accessibility, the authors now present information in a more conversational writing style. • NEW! Show your students the differences they can make by using the EBP process through two new features: Making EBP Real , which presents successful case stories in real world settings for each unit, and EBP Fast Facts , which highlight important points from each chapter. • NEW! Chapters on the role of a clinician’s expertise and patient preferences/values in making decisions about patient care (Ch. 7), leadership strategies for creating and sustaining EBP organizations (Ch. 11), and sparking innovation in EBP (Ch. 12). • NEW! The American Journal of Nursing EBP Step-by-Step Series , which provides a real-world example of the EBP process, has been added to the student resources, and a suggested curriculum strategy involving that series, plus guided lecture notes and sample syllabi, have been added to the instructor’s online resources. • NEW! Five new test questions per chapter enhance the online instructor test questions. • Encourage students to actively engage in evidence-based practice and accomplish goals through inspirational quotes and learning activities. • Help your students further develop evidence-based practice knowledge and skills through web alerts that direct them to helpful Internet resources. • Help your students master the content of the course with critical appraisal checklists, evaluation tables, and synthesis tables, available in the appendices and at the book’s companion web page.

Table of Contents Unit 1: Steps Zero, One, Two: Getting Started Unit 2: Step Three: Critically Appraising Evidence Unit 3: Steps Four and Five: Moving From Evidence to Sustainable Practice Change Unit 4: Creating and Sustaining a Culture and Environment for Evidence-Based Practice Unit 5: Step Six: Disseminating Evidence and Evidence-Based Practice Implementation Outcomes Unit 6: Next Steps: Generating External Evidence and Writing Successful Funding Proposals Appendix A: Templates for Asking Clinical Questions Appendix B: Rapid Critical Appraisal Checklists Appendix C: Evaluation and Synthesis Tables Templates for Critical Appraisal Appendix D: Walking the Walk and Talking the Talk: An Appraisal Guide for Qualitative Evidence Appendix E: Example of a Health Policy Brief Appendix F: Example of a Press Release Appendix G: An Example of a Successful Media Dissemination Effort: Patient-Directed Music Intervention to Reduce Anxiety and Sedative Exposure in Critically Ill Patients Receiving Mechanical Ventilatory Support …Abridged to fit

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Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice, Second Edition, Taiwan Edition Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/PMHNP, FNAP 978-986-5998-33-2 • April 2013 • Softbound • 7” x 10”