Book Description

The Evidence-based Practice Manual successfully breaks down the skills for evidence-based nursing into manageable components. The reader will learn how to find, critically read and interpret a range of research studies, and will discover optimal approaches to helping patients reach decisions that are informed by the best-available evidence. The more-strategic concepts of developing an organisational evidence-based culture and making evidence-based changes at organisational level are the focus of the final section. - Step-by-step guide to finding, appraising and applying research evidence in nursing - Teaches skills for successfully reviewing published literature: - formulating a focused question - developing a search strategy for efficient retrieval of relevant studies - appraising the retrieved studies - All examples are relevant to nurses and nursing - Reflects contemporary nursing issues - A new chapter on 'Using research evidence in making clinical decisions with the individual patient' provides practical guidance and tools for decision-making - A new chapter on 'Using evidence from qualitative studies' explains the complexities of qualitative methodologies and methods in a simple, easily understood way Online exercises and solutions - Help the reader test out and consolidate newly acquired skills and knowledge - Provide an opportunity to critically appraise studies with the following range of designs: - qualitative research - a randomised controlled trial - a cohort study - a case control study - a diagnostic test accuracy study - a systematic review - a clinical guideline - Example solutions are provided, all written by experts in the field.