Evidence-Based Practice Manual for Nurses - E-Book

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Author: Rosalind L. Smyth, MA, MBBS, MD, MRCP, DCH, FRCPCH ISBN: 9780702046681
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences Publication: August 11, 2011
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone Language: English
Author: Rosalind L. Smyth, MA, MBBS, MD, MRCP, DCH, FRCPCH
ISBN: 9780702046681
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication: August 11, 2011
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
Language: English

The Evidence-based Practice Manual successfully breaks down the skills for evidence-based nursing into manageable components. The reader will learn how to find, critically read and interpret a range of research studies, and will discover optimal approaches to helping patients reach decisions that are informed by the best-available evidence. The more-strategic concepts of developing an organisational evidence-based culture and making evidence-based changes at organisational level are the focus of the final section.

  • Step-by-step guide to finding, appraising and applying research evidence in nursing

  • Teaches skills for successfully reviewing published literature:

  • formulating a focused question

    developing a search strategy for efficient retrieval of relevant studies

    appraising the retrieved studies

  • All examples are relevant to nurses and nursing

  • Reflects contemporary nursing issues

  • A new chapter on ‘Using research evidence in making clinical decisions with the individual patient’ provides practical guidance and tools for decision-making

  • A new chapter on ‘Using evidence from qualitative studies’ explains the complexities of qualitative methodologies and methods in a simple, easily understood way

Online exercises and solutions

  • Help the reader test out and consolidate newly acquired skills and knowledge

  • Provide an opportunity to critically appraise studies with the following range of designs:

  • qualitative research

    a randomised controlled trial

    a cohort study

    a case control study

    a diagnostic test accuracy study

    a systematic review

    a clinical guideline

  • Example solutions are provided, all written by experts in the field.

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The Evidence-based Practice Manual successfully breaks down the skills for evidence-based nursing into manageable components. The reader will learn how to find, critically read and interpret a range of research studies, and will discover optimal approaches to helping patients reach decisions that are informed by the best-available evidence. The more-strategic concepts of developing an organisational evidence-based culture and making evidence-based changes at organisational level are the focus of the final section.

Online exercises and solutions

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