Teaching Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing

Awarded second place in the 2013 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Nursing Education/Continuing Education category

This AJN award-winning text is the only book to teach evidence-based practice (EBP) content grounded in a tested philosophy of teaching and learning. It provides the tools, perspective and context for health educators and practitioners to implement evidence-based care practices and evaluate their efficacy.

Reflecting four years of successful experiences in helping academic agencies understand and implement EBP, this new edition has been reorganized to include updated information and five new chapters. It stresses the importance of mentorship in creating EBP and illustrates how mentorship can be designed and implemented to promote EBP. The text clarifies three principal values:

Rona F. Levin, PhD, RN, is internationally recognized for her work in evidence-based practice improvement. In 2015, Sigma Theta Tau International presented her with their Evidence-Based Practice Award. She and co-editor, Dr. Harriet Feldman, won AJN Book of the Year Awards for the first (2006) and second (2013) editions of Teaching Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing published by Springer.

Dr. Levin, now in a preferred state (semi-retired), practiced in almost every clinical service at the beginning of her career. In 1968, she developed the idea for and implemented as the nurse manager a new unit at then Long Island Jewish Hospital, known as self-directed patient care, which embodied all the components of evidence-based nursing practice, integrating evidence-based care with patients values and goals, and her clinical experience and caring, before EBP became the by-word for nursing practice.

Harriet R. Feldman, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Dean, Lienhard School of Nursing, Pace University.