This is a must-read for a range of professionals, offering a balanced yet critically aware appraisal of the significance of evidence-based/informed practice in a complex professional world.Dr Steve J Hothersall, [Formerly, now retired] Head of Social Work, Mental Health and Learning Disability Nursing Education and Practice, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK. I would highly recommend this book to any clinicians or students looking to improve the way that they integrate evidence into their professional practice.Professor Liz Halcomb, Professor of Primary Health Care Nursing, University of Wollongong, Australia.Aveyard, Greenway and Parsons have provided an excellent guide to evidence-based practice in this updated edition which is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students and for practitioners.Dr Hazel Partington University of Central Lancashire, UK Are you struggling with relating evidence to your practice?Do you want a straightforward, clearly written and practical guide to evidence-based practice?A Beginner’s Guide to Evidence-Based Practice in Health and Social Care, 4th edition is the book for anyone who has ever wondered what evidence-based practice is, or how to relate it to practice or use it in academic work. Thoroughly revised with two new co-authors this brand new edition uses simple and jargon-free language to help those new to the topic. It provides an accessible step-by-step guide to what we mean by evidence in practice and how to apply this concept to learning and practice.This new edition features: New explanations with examples from both health and social care practice, using a wide range of research that is also relevant outside of the UK Coverage of new discourse on the use of evidence generated by COVID-19 Coverage on the role, need and quality of rapid reviews New end-of-chapter questions to help assess how much you have learned This book provides an inter-professional approach and is key reading for both students and professionals who need to search for, appraise and apply evidence across nursing, allied health care or social care.Helen Aveyard is Principal Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, UK with a background in nursing. Helen is author of Doing a Literature Review in Health and Social Care and co-author of A Postgraduates Guide to Doing a Literature Review in Health and Social Care and A Beginners Guide to Critical Thinking and Writing in Health and Social Care.Kathleen Greenway is Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing at Oxford Brookes University, UK with a background in gastrointestinal and gerontological nursing. She completed her MA in Education at the Open University and her Ed D at Oxford Brookes. She now teaches pre-registration, post graduate and Doctoral programme nursing.Lucy Parsons is Divisional Director of Nursing at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK. She is also a student on the Professional Doctorate In Nursing programme at Oxford Brookes University, UK and her research interest is the implementation of Evidence-Based Practice.
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