Evidence-Based Nursing (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction
Redaktion: Cullum, Nicky; Marks, Susan; Haynes, Brian; Ciliska, Donna

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What is evidence-based nursing? Simply, it is the application of valid, relevant, and research-based information in nurse decision-making. Used effectively, evidence-based nursing methods can be used to dramatically enhance patient care and improve outcomes. Evidence-based Nursing is a practical guide to evidence-based nursing for students and practitioners. Proceeding step-by-step, it enables nurses to understand and evaluate the different types of evidence that are available, and to critically appraise the studies that lay behind them. It also considers the ways in which these findings can be implemented in clinical practice, and how research can be practically applied to clinical-decision making. * Easy to use step-by-step approach * Explores all aspects of the evidence-based nursing process * Includes updates of popular articles from Evidence-based Nursing * Examines dissemination and implementation of research findings in clinical practice * Includes clinical scenarios * Chapters include learning exercises to aid understanding Evidence-based Nursing is a vital resource for students and practitioners wanting to learn more about research based nursing methods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118682029
• Artikelnr.: 38401943

Autorenporträt

Nicky Cullum is Director of the Centre for Evidence Based Nursing at the University of York, UK and formerly UK Editor of Evidence Based Nursing. Donna Ciliska is Professor, School of Nursing, McMaster University ,Canada, and Editor, Evidence-Based Nursing Brian Haynes is Professor and Chair, Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Medicine, McMaster University, Canada and Co-ordinating Editor, Evidence Based Nursing Susan Marks is Senior Research Associate, Evidence Based Nursing.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Evidence Based Nursing: an introduction. 2. Implementing evidence-based
nursing: some misconceptions. 3. Asking answerable questions. 4. Searching
for the best evidence. Part 1: where to look. 5. Searching for the best
evidence. Part 2: searching CINAHL and Medline. 6. Of Studies, Summaries,
Synopses, and Systems: the "4S" evolution of services for finding current
best evidence. 7. Identifying the best research design to fit the question.
Part 1: quantitative designs. 8. Identifying the best research design to
fit the question. Part 2: qualitative designs. 9. If you could just provide
me with a sample: examining sampling in qualitative and quantitative
research papers. 10. The fundamentals of quantitative measurement. 11.
Statistics for evidence-based nursing. 12. Estimating treatment effects:
real or the result of chance?. 13. Data analysis in qualitative research.
14. Users' guides to the nursing literature: an introduction. 15.
Evaluation of studies of treatment or prevention interventions. 16.
Assessing allocation concealment and blinding in randomised controlled
trials: why bother?. 17. Clinically useful measures of the effects of
treatment. 18. "Double blind, you are the weakest link -- goodbye!". 19.
Evaluation of systematic reviews of treatment or prevention interventions.
20. Evaluation of studies of assessment and screening tools, and diagnostic
tests. 21. Evaluation of studies of health economics. 22. Evaluation of
studies of prognosis. 23. Evaluation of studies of causation (aetiology).
24. Evaluation of studies of harm. 25. Evaluation of qualitative research
studies. 26. Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines. 27. Closing the
gap between nursing research and practice. 28. Promoting research
utilisation in nursing: the role of the individual, organisation, and
environment. 29. Nurses, information use, and clinical decision making--the
real world potential for evidence-based decisions in nursing. The following
are tentative depending on emphasis on implementation:. 30. Clinical
practice guidelines. 31. Continuing professional development in Canada and
the UK: how evidence-based resources can help. 32. Centres of
evidence-based nursing: directions and challenges. 33. Developing
organisational systems and culture to support evidence-based practice: the
experience of the Evidence-Based Ward Project. 34. Building a foundation
for evidence-based practice: experiences in a tertiary hospital