Evidence-Based Nursing: An Introduction - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405145978 ISBN 13: 9781405145978

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007

Synopsis

What is evidence-based nursing? Simply, it is the application of valid, relevant, and research-based information in nurse decision-making. Used effectively, evidence-based nursing methods can be used to dramatically enhance patient care and improve outcomes.

Evidence-based Nursing is a practical guide to evidence-based nursing for students and practitioners. Proceeding step-by-step, it enables nurses to understand and evaluate the different types of evidence that are available, and to critically appraise the studies that lay behind them. It also considers the ways in which these findings can be implemented in clinical practice, and how research can be practically applied to clinical-decision making.

• Easy to use step-by-step approach
• Explores all aspects of the evidence-based nursing process
• Includes updates of popular articles from Evidence-based Nursing
• Examines dissemination and implementation of research findings in clinical practice
• Includes clinical scenarios
• Chapters include learning exercises to aid understanding

Evidence-based Nursing is a vital resource for students and practitioners wanting to learn more about research based nursing methods.

About this title

Book Description

Evidence-Based Nursing is a practical guide to evidence-based nursing. The evidence-based nursing process can be broken down into a series of key steps and this book explores each stage sequentially, building on fundamental concepts step-by-step. Evidence-Based Nursing addresses key concepts such as turning clinical uncertainty into focused questions, searching for valid research evidence to help answer the questions, critical appraisal of different types of research and getting research findings into practice. Evidence-Based Nursing enables students to understand and evaluate different types of studies and how they contribute research evidence, how patient care and outcomes can be improved through using research in clinical decision making, and how research findings can be disseminated and implemented in clinical practice.

About the Author

Nicky Cullum is Director of the Centre for Evidence Based Nursing at the University of York, UK and formerly UK Editor of Evidence Based Nursing.

Donna Ciliska is Professor, School of Nursing, McMaster University ,Canada, and Editor, Evidence-Based Nursing

Brian Haynes is Professor and Chair, Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Medicine, McMaster University, Canada and Co-ordinating Editor, Evidence Based Nursing

Susan Marks is Senior Research Associate, Evidence Based Nursing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1405145978
• ISBN 13: 9781405145978
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Cullum Nicky, Ciliska Donna, Haynes Brian, Marks Susan