Research for Advanced Practice Nurses, Second Edition: From Evidence to Practice - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826137253 ISBN 13: 9780826137258

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, 2013

Synopsis

This book should provide graduate nursing students with the knowledge to evaluate research evidence and use it in practice. With the increasing focus on EBP, this book should serve as a useful resource." Score: 100, 5 stars. --Doody's

This book would be useful for both graduate nursing students and practicing nurses."--Doody's Medical Reviews

The second edition of this award-winning reference on formulating, achieving, and sustaining evidence-based practice (EBP) through clinical research updates all prior content and includes two new chapters on establishing and sustaining an evidence-based practice and environment, and how a research question drives the selection of research design, measurement, and analysis. Also featured are cutting-edge discussions of translational science and interprofessional research plus the contributions of several new authors.

Designed for use by graduate students, clinical administrators, and managers and in DNP programs and in-service education, the text offers practical methods to translate evidence into practice by effectively using and appraising clinical studies. It presents research concepts in a clear, conversational tone and addresses the most current knowledge about how nurses can learn to formulate and achieve EBP as clinicians. From a single study to a meta-analysis, EBP concepts related to patient care are integrated throughout. Clinically relevant examples present ways students and staff can apply knowledge to daily clinical practice through the development, implementation, and evaluation of clinical protocols. Text boxes and web references reinforce information. Taken together, the content of the Second Edition will help the nursing profession in its move toward the forefront of institutional management, research, policy decisions, and ethical considerationsóall to enhance safe patient care and health. The book also includes interactive PDF with fill-in, reusable templates, and is available in enhanced eBook format that includes audio/video Q & A.

New to the Second Edition:

• Presents new content on translational science and inter-professional research.
• Updates all content from the first edition.
• Includes two new chapters on establishing and sustaining EBT and how a research question drives the selection of a research design, measurement and analysis.
• Presents the contributions of several new authors.
• Features psychosocial and physical data collection and analysis methods.
• Includes guidelines on evaluating research articles, including ethical components.
• Suggests strategies for establishing and sustaining an organizational evidence-based practice.
• Presents primary ways of evaluating cost as a dimension of evidence-based practice.
• Offers appendices with evidence-based practice activities and protocols, and a resource list of relevant websites.
• Features interactive PDF with fill-in, reusable templates.
• Available as enhanced eBook that includes audio/video Q & A

About this title

About the Author:

Magdalena Mateo, PhD, RN, FAAN, was Associate Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University School of Nursing, Boston, USA. She won a 1999 AJN Book of the Year Award for her Using and Conducting Nursing Research in the Clinical Setting, and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 1992. Marquis Foreman, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Professor and Chair, Department of Adult Health and Gerontological Nursing, Rush University College of Nursing, USA. Foreman is known best for his research about delirium in hospitalised older people. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, and the Institute of Medicine-Chicago, and has received numerous awards.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0826137253
• ISBN 13: 9780826137258
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 484
• Editor: Mateo Magdalena