Evidence-based practice in nursing & healthcare : a guide to best practice / Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk and Ellen Fineout-Overholt.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Melnyk, Bernadette Mazurek
Other Authors: Fineout-Overholt, Ellen
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2005], ©2005.
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Physical Description:xxvi, 608 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Variant Title:
Evidence-based practice in nursing and healthcare.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Making the case for evidence-based practice
  • Asking compelling clinical questions
  • Finding relevant evidence
  • Critically appraising knowledge for clinical decision-making
  • Critically appraising quantitative evidence
  • Critically appraising qualitative evidence
  • Patient concerns, choices, and clinical judgment in evidence-based practice
  • Using models and strategies for evidence-based practice
  • Using evidence-based practice guidelines: tools for improving practice
  • Generating evidence through quantitative research
  • Generating evidence through qualitative research
  • Generating evidence through outcomes management
  • Writing a successful grant proposal to fund research and outcomes management
  • Disseminating evidence
  • Teaching evidence-based practice
  • Creating a vision: motivating a change to evidence-based practice in individuals and organizations
  • Evidence to guide best practice
  • Best evidence to guide clinical practice with adults in acute and critical care
  • Best evidence to guide clinical practice with adults in primary care
  • Best evidence to guide clinical practice with aging adults
  • Best evidence to guide clinical practice in emergency and trauma care
  • Best evidence to guide clinical practice with high-risk children and youth
  • Best evidence to guide clinical practice in psychiatric mental health.