Designated a Doody’s Core Title!
‘This book should provide graduate nursing students with the knowledge to evaluate research evidence and use it in practice. With the increasing focus on EBP, this book should serve as a useful resource.’ Score: 100, 5 stars
–Doody’s
Achieve competency in evidence-based practice now!
This book provides practical ways for nurses to develop competency in evidence-based practice (EBP) by effectively using and appraising clinical studies. In this single, introductory volume, Mateo and Kirchoff present everything that advanced practice nurses and graduate students need to know to translate clinical research into practice.
With this book, readers will learn the essential methods that are used to achieve EBP, such as how to find and evaluate research articles, design questionnaires and data collection forms, analyze quantitative data, and much more.
Key features:
- Includes guidelines on how to evaluate the strengths and failures of research articles
- Presents data collection methods for physiological and psychosocial data
- Explains how to evaluate the ethical aspects of a study
- Provides guidelines on how to present and publish research findings
- Contains appendices with examples of evidence-based practice activities and protocols as well as a resource list of relevant websites
By knowing how to appraise the available evidence and its implications for clinical care, readers will learn to seamlessly translate evidence into practice.
Inhoudsopgave
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Part I: Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 1: Overview of Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 2: General Searching: Finding Research Reports
Chapter 3: Research and the Mandate for Evidence-Based Practice, Quality, and Patient Safety
Part II: Building Blocks for Evidence
Chapter 4: Appraising a Single Research Article
Chapter 5: Identifying a Focus of Study
Chapter 6: Theory and Conceptual Frameworks
Chapter 7: Quantitative Designs
Chapter 8: Qualitative Research for Nursing Practice
Chapter 9: Sampling Methods
Chapter 10: Designing Questionnaires and Data Collection Forms
Chapter 11: Physiological Data Collection Methods
Chapter 12: Psychosocial Data Collection Methods
Chapter 13: Analyzing Quantitative Data
Part III: Using Available Evidence
Chapter 14: Systematic Reviews
Chapter 15: Finding and Appraising Clinical Practice Guidelines
Chapter 16: Program Evaluation
Chapter 17: Implementing Evidence-Based Practice
Part IV: Evaluating the Impact of EBP Communicating Results
Chapter 18: Cost as a Dimension of Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 19: Outcomes Evaluation
Chapter 20: Ethical Aspects of a Study
Chapter 21: Communicating Research through Oral Presentations
Chapter 22: Reporting Results Through Publication
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Over de auteur
Karin T. Kirchhoff, Ph D, RN, FAAN, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing.
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