Table of Contents

 

 

 

UNIT I

BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT - WHAT IS EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE AND WHO CARES?

 

Chapter 1

Professional Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice

 

Chapter 2

Elements of Evidence-Based Practice

 

Chapter 3

Global Perspectives and Borderless Knowledge

 

UNIT II

MODELS FOR EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE

 

Chapter 4

Why Bother with Theory?

 

Chapter 5

A Sampler of Conceptual Frameworks and Models

 

Chapter 6

Common Principles

 

UNIT III

HOW TO DO EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE

 

Chapter 7

Overview of the Evidence-Based Practice Process

 

Chapter 8

Ask and Assess: Questioning

 

Chapter 9

Acquire and Diagnose: Linking the Problem with Finding Best Sources of Evidence

 

Chapter 10

Appraise and Plan I: All Evidence is Not Created Equal

 

Chapter 11

Appraise and Plan II: Pre-Appraised and Synthetic Sources of Evidence

 

Chapter 12

Apply and Implement I: Decision Making and Integrating Preference and Clinical Expertise

 

Chapter 13

Apply and Implement II: Individual Nurse Implementation

 

Chapter 14

Apply and Implement III: Nursing Systems of Evidence Implementation

 

Chapter 15

Apply and Implement IV: National and International Systems of Evidence Implementation

 

Chapter 16

Assess and Evaluate: Outcome Measurement and Revision of Plan

 

UNIT IV

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

 

Chapter 17

Medical-Surgical Nursing

 

Chapter 18

Evidence Implementation to Provide Safe Nursing Care to Laboring Women

 

Chapter 19

Nursing Care of Children

 

Chapter 20

Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

 

Chapter 21

Nursing Care of the Older Adult

 

Chapter 22

Community Health Nursing

 

 

Glossary

 

 

Index