Evidence-Based Practice for Clinical Nurses: The PEACE Model

New York-Presbyterian Hospital, one of the nation’s most comprehensive academic healthcare delivery systems, uses the evidence-based practice PEACE model to prepare all its nurses and position them as essential to improving patient and family-centered care. Not surprisingly, the healthcare network has continuously delivered high quality care and improved patient outcomes. Now, nurses everywhere can replicate this highly successful model.

In The PEACE Model Evidence-Based Practice Guide for Clinical Nurses, authors Reynaldo R. Rivera and Joyce J. Fitzpatrick provide a road map to model implementation. Readers will learn to formulate and address clinical questions and disseminate findings, ultimately helping nurses integrate evidence at the bedside and through quality research. After reading this book, you will be able to:

• Apply the components of evidence-based practice (EBP) in your day-to-day nursing practice
• Differentiate between EBP, research, and quality improvement
• Discuss the PEACE model process, from problem identification to dissemination of findings
• Identify resources to support nurses in EBP, quality improvement, and research

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Evidence-Based Practice, Research, and Quality Improvement
Chapter 2: Problem Identification
Chapter 3: Evidence Review
Chapter 4: Appraise the Evidence
Chapter 5: Change Practice
Chapter 6: Conduct Research
Chapter 7: Evaluation
Chapter 8: Disseminate Findings
Chapter 9: Resources
Chapter 10: Practice Exemplars

Reynaldo R. Rivera, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, is the Director of Nursing Research and Innovation at NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP). He is also an Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing and an Associate Professor of Nursing at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University.

Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, FNAP, is the inaugural Director of the Marian K. Shaughnessy Nurse Leadership Academy and Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University. She is widely published in nursing and healthcare literature with over 400 publications, including more than 80 books.