Evidence-based practice in nursing & healthcare : a guide to best practice / Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk and Ellen Fineout-Overholt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Unit 1. Steps 0, 1, and 2: Getting started -- Making the case for evidence-based practice and cultivating a spirit of inquiry -- Asking compelling clinical questions -- Finding relevant evidence to answer clinical questions -- Unit 2. Step 3: Critically appraising evidence -- Critically appraising knowledge for clinical decision making -- Clinician expertise and patient-valued preferences as context for critical appraisal for evidence-based decision making -- Critically appraising quantitative evidence for clinical decision making -- Critically appraising qualitative and mixed methods evidence for clinical decision making -- Advancing optimal care with robust clinical practice guidelines -- Unit 3. Steps 4 and 5: Moving from evidence to sustainable practice change -- Key strategies for implementing evidence in real-world clinical settings -- The role of quality improvement and evidence-based quality improvement in practice change -- Implementing the evidence-based practice competencies in clinical and academic settings to enhance healthcare quality, safety, and patient outcomes -- Leadership strategies for creating and sustaining evidence-based practice organizations -- Unit 4. Creating and sustaining a culture and environment for evidence-based practice -- Innovation and evidence: a partnership in advancing best practice and high quality care -- Models to guide implementation and sustainability of evidence- based practice -- Implementation science to clinical practice settings: accelerating the uptake of evidence into practice for best outcomes -- Evidence-based practice mentors: the key to sustaining evidence-based practice in clinical and educational settings -- Creating a vision and motivating a change to evidence-based practice in individuals, teams, and organizations -- Teaching evidence-based practice in academic settings -- Teaching evidence-based practice in clinical settings -- Unit 5. Step 6: Disseminating evidence and evidence-based practice implementation outcomes -- Using evidence to influence health and organizational Policy -- Disseminating evidence through presentations, publications, health policy briefs, and the media -- Unit 6. Generating external and writing successful grant proposals -- Generating evidence through quantitative and qualitative research -- Writing a successful grant proposal to fund research and evidence-based practice implementation projects -- Ethical considerations for evidence implementation and evidence generation.

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