Overview
Evidence-Based Nursing: The Research-Practice Connection, Third Edition introduces students to research methods and evidence-based practice (EBP). Written in an accessible style, the content moves readers through understanding how research is produced to appraisal at the critical thinking level. Timely information links evidence-based practice to recent work in the Safety and Quality programs that are underway in healthcare and nursing.
Key Features:
• Offers five common research designs, systematic reviews, and clinical practice guidelines by using a consistent, easy-to-read "Why-How-What" approach.
• Exemplar research reports include “Profile and Commentary” that explain results of studies and help students better understand the methodological components of a study
Accompanied by Instructor Resources:
• Save time with a Test Bank and sample syllabus
• Encourage critical thinking using additional learning activities, including discussion questions and small group assignments
• Plan classroom lectures using PowerPoint Presentations created by the author
Editorials
Reviewer: Diane M Tomasic, EdD, RN(Slippery Rock University )
Description: This is the second edition of a book providing a basic understanding of research methods and how to incorporate evidence into practice. An access code for an online component is included.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide students with the knowledge they need to develop an evidence-based practice. This is a worthwhile goal, as nurses need to be able to read research reports and to decide whether and how to use the evidence in clinical decision making.
Audience: The target audience is nursing students being introduced to research methods and to how to incorporate the evidence into practice. The author is an evidence-base practice consultant.
Features: Part I of the book describes systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in addition to the major types of research, with examples of each. Part II presents the steps of the evidence-based practice impact model which is used to achieve an evidence-based practice. Several appendixes present terms used to describe scientific evidence, the process for producing an evidence-based clinical practice guideline, an appraisal of a clinical practice guideline's recommendation, appraisal of conclusions of an integrative research review, appraisal of a quantitative study, and a completed findings table. An additional appendix on the appraisal of a qualitative study would have been helpful. The online component for students provides study guides, research articles, sample research papers, animated flashcards, crossword puzzles, and an interactive glossary.
Assessment: This book should be useful to the target audience. Being able to incorporate research into practice is a must for today's nurses and this book provides basic knowledge for this process.