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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
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”