Quick-E Pro: Evidence-Based Practice: A Guide for Nurses

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Quick-E! Pro Evidence-Based Practice: A Guide for Nurses is designed to help you better understand evidence-based practice and how to insert it into every shift. This one-of-a-kind resource will walk you through how to find evidence, critique literature, and make practice based on evidence a top priority for you and your organization.

Table of contents

Chapter 1: What is Evidence-Based Practice?
Chapter 2: Creating a Culture of Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 3: Choosing a Model and Identifying a Question
Chapter 4: Gathering and Evaluating Evidence
Chapter 5: Independent Searches
Chapter 6: Sharing the Results
Appendix A: Guidelines for Journal Clubs
Appendix B: Process for Evaluating Internet Sources
Appendix C: Basic Research Designs

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Meet the authors

Joan Monchak Lorenz, MSN, RN, PMHCNS-BC, is a member of the nursing education department of the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System, in Bay Pines, FL

Suzanne C. Beyea, RN, PhD, FAAN, is the Director of Nursing Research at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH.

Mary Jo Slattery, RN, MS, is the Nursing Research Coordinator at DHMC.

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Learning objectives:

• Explain evidence-based practice
• Describe how evidence-based practice contributes to improved patient outcomes
• Discuss the resources needed for conducting EBP projects
• Examine strategies for creating a culture of EBP
• Identify various models of evidence-based practice
• Examine how models help structure EBP
• Discuss ways to get started with asking a question
• Discuss best practices for finding evidence
• Describe how to conduct a literature critique
• List online sources for evidence
• Evaluate various online sources of evidence
• Discuss best practices for sharing EBP information

Intended audience

• Bedside caregivers and staff nurses
• Nurse managers and leaders/charge nurses
• Staff educators/education directors/development specialists

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