Publisher's Synopsis
The Evidence-Based Practice Manual successfully breaks down the skills required 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 towards 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 the organisational level are addressed in the final chapter. This popular book comes with helpful online exercises including NCLEX questions for the US readership.
- Helps students learn to read and understand research results as a foundation for evidence-based practice
- Easy writing style makes a potentially difficult subject accessible and enjoyable
- Explains how to search the literature and rank it according to the strength of its evidence
- Case studies, scenarios and exercises 'bring the subject to life'
- Clearly explains the process of critical appraisal - quality of the study, interpretation of the results, and applicability of the findings to individual patients
- Explains the various means of applying data from population studies to the individual
- Offers practical advice on how to communicate risks and benefits to patients
- Contains a glossary of useful terms
- New editorship brings an international dimension to the content
- Includes a new chapter on mixed methods studies
- Expanded discussion of the evaluation of qualitative systematic reviews
- Updated information on the implementation of guidelines and the current role of evidence in healthcare organisational policy
- Now published in full colour throughout
