Evidence-Based Practice Manual for Nurses - E-Book: Evidence-Based Practice Manual for Nurses - E-Book

by Rosalind L Smyth, MSc Craig PhD (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780702046681
Publisher:	Churchill Livingstone, Inc.
Publication date:	08/11/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	398
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Jean Craig is a research advisor with the Research Design Service of the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR RDS). This varied role entails working with nurses and other health care practitioners, methodologists, health care managers and members of the public to develop high quality, competitive research grant applications.She has worked as a pediatric nurse in a variety of acute hospitals and settings including the renowned Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, South Africa’s only dedicated child health institution, St Thomas’ Hospital in London and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, one of Europe’s largest children’s hospitals. There, her role as the integrated care pathway coordinator for the cardiac intensive care and other cardiac units provided her with hands-on experience of the challenges of initiating organizational evidence-based practice changes that required buy-in from people from different professions. Her research career started in Liverpool where she worked as a research associate in the Evidence-Based Child Health Unit at the University of Liverpool, undertaking systematic reviews and contributing to the development of National clinical guidelines. She was a member of the Alder Hey Children’s NHS Trust Research Review Committee and helped to establish and run a Research Clinic at the Trust for clinicians developing research proposals. She established and led the Evidence-Based Practice Child Health module for post-graduates at the University of Liverpool. As a regional research adviser, she has an informal educational role in supporting learning about research methods. She is an independent member of the data monitoring and ethics committees for a number of trials, and a member of the trials adoption group for the Norwich Clinical Trials Unit. Jean has published on a wide range of nursing topics. She is co-editor of the first three editions of The Evidence-Based Practice Manual for Nurses, and is a member of the editorial board for the journal Pilot and Feasibility Studies. Research from her PhD (obtained in Liverpool University, UK) about temperature measurement in infants and children was published in The Lancet and the British Medical Journal.

Table of Contents

Section 1 The context for evidence-based practice 1 Evidence-based practice in nursing Section 2 Skills for evidence-based practice 2 How to ask the right question 3 Searching the literature 4 Using evidence from qualitative studies 5 Using evidence from quantitative studies 6 Using evidence from systematic reviews 7 Evidence-based guidelines 8 Using research evidence in making clinical decisions with individual patients Section 3 The process of changing practice 9 Using research evidence to change how services are delivered 10 How can we develop an evidence-based culture? Glossary

Editorial Reviews

3 Stars from Doody

"Provides a solid introduction to the process of evidence-based practice." Nicola Andrew, Nursing Times July 30 2002 Vol 98 No 31
book is essential reading for nurses who are concerned with and think seriously about research evidence to help maintain or change healthcare practice. As such it will appeal to nurses working in all clinical settings." Vlachonikolis Ioannis, Nursing Standard Vol 17/ No 2

From the Publisher

Reviewer: Diane M Tomasic, EdD, RN (Slippery Rock University )
Description: This book describes a step-by-step approach for nurses to identify, evaluate, and apply best evidence to their clinical practice.
Purpose: This book provides the reader with the tools and skills to review evidence and apply it to clinical practice. This is a very worthwhile goal, considering the emphasis on developing an evidence-based practice. This book is needed since many nurses feel they do not have the skills and knowledge to do this.
Audience: The target audience for this book is all clinical nurses desiring to develop the skills needed to have an evidence-based approach to practice.
Features: This book is divided into three sections. The first section introduces the reader to the background of the evidence-based practice movement. The second covers the various tools and skills need to evaluate the evidence for use in practice. This section begins with learning to ask the right question to initiate the process and includes a description of how to search the literature for various types of evidence. The tools for critically evaluating the findings are described in detail. Both quantitative and qualitative research methods are included. The third section describes the process of implementing the best practice. The United Kingdom Model is described. The book includes a glossary, references, useful Web sites and a list of electronic databases. Much of the information comes out of the United Kingdom.
Assessment: This book should be very useful for nurses desiring to become familiar with the process of having a practice based on evidence. It is clearly written and its step-by-step format is very useful for the novice or for the nurse initiating the process.

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