Translation of Evidence into Nursing and Health Care Practice

Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!

The first text of its kind, Translation of Evidence into Nursing and Health Care Practice helps graduate students in Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) courses meet the core competency requirements, content, and knowledge of the DNP curriculum. This revolutionary guide focuses particularly on the challenges of translating evidence into practice, one of the DNP course competencies.

Written by nursing faculty who are currently involved in clinical practice and who translate evidence as part of their practice activities, this textbook presents an interdisciplinary application that provides readers with content for both clinical-based and non-clinical based DNP courses. Divided into three main sections, it discusses theoretical and practical challenges to translation of evidence into practice; methods and translation techniques to employ this translation across settings; and related evaluation strategies to demonstrate improvement in practice and clinical care outcomes.

• Integration and application of knowledge into practice
• Leading and evaluating change
• Leadership strategies for translation
• Interdisciplinary application across settings
• Outcomes management for improvement of direct and indirect care
• Other important features include case studies, suggested activities for application of the content for learning, and an extensive list of references, current web links, and other applicable resources for enhancing graduate student learning.

Kathleen (Kathi)M. White, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, served as director of the MSN (Entry into Nursing), Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), and Master's programs at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and coordinated the MSN Health Systems Management Track and the MSN/MBA dual degree option. She continues to hold an adjunct faculty appointment at the Johns Hopkins School of Education, where she teaches in the Masters in Education for the Health Professions program, a collaboration of the Johns Hopkins Schools of Nursing, Medicine, Public Health, Business, and Education. Dr. White is recognized for her leadership in evidence-based practice. She was an original member of the School of Nursing/Johns Hopkins Hospital collaborative team that developed the widely published, award-winning Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-based Practice Model and Guidelines. Dr. White served as a senior adviser to the Center for Health Workforce Analysis, the Division of Nursing, and the Office of Performance Management in the Bureau of Health Professions at the Health Resources and Services Administration from 2010--2013. Her numerous practice leadership roles have included consulting with Parkway Group Healthcare in Singapore and the primary health care reform project in Armenia; as a member of the Hopkins-Healthways Advisory Group; as a member of the Maryland Health Care Commission's Hospital Performance Evaluation Guide Advisory Committee; as chairperson of the American Nursing Association Congress on Nursing Practice and Economics from 2006--2010; as the inaugural chairperson of the Maryland Patient Safety Center's Board of Directors; and as the chairperson of the Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center Board of Trustees from 2021--2023 (Board member, 2015--present).

Sharon Dudley-Brown, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FAAN, is a Professor at the University of Delaware. She also holds a faculty appointment at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she sees patients as well as conducts research on patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Dr. Dudley-Brown has held several academic appointments, both nationally and internationally, and has worked as a nurse practitioner at several institutions over the past 25+ years. She has published numerous peer-reviewed papers and abstracts in the fields of nursing, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis, and is currently a member of several editorial boards, including that of Gastroenterology Nursing, where she is the international editor. She was instrumental in the formation of and is on the Board of Trustees of GHAPP: Gastroenterology and Hepatology Advanced Practice Providers, an organization dedicated to the education of APPs in gastroenterology and hepatology.