Title: Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0781744776
ISBN 13: 9780781744775
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good

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This user-friendly resource to evidence-based practice will serve as a guide to implementing evidence-based practice in nursing and healthcare. "Real-life" examples assist the reader in actualizing important concepts and overcoming barriers in the implementation of evidence-based care; efficient critical appraisal of both quantitative and qualitative evidence; how to factor in a clinician's expertise and patient preferences/values when making decisions about patient care; chapters on outcomes management and how to create a vision to motivate a change to best practice; chapters on generating both qualitative and quantitative evidence; how to write a successful grant proposal; as well as a chapter on how to disseminate evidence to other professionals, the media, and policy-makers. The text also includes web-alerts that direct readers to helpful internet resources and an accompanying CD-ROM with 40 evidence reviews written by experts in the field that answer burning clinical questions across six specialty areas: adults in critical/acute care; adults in primary care; aging; emergency & trauma care; high-risk children & youth; and psychiatric mental health.

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Knowing what questions to ask, how to evaluate the responses, and provide effective assessments are important for every healthcare professional. -- Richard H. Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS, VADM, USPHS United States Surgeon General

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