The Evidence-based Practice Manual successfully breaks down the skills for evidence-based nursing into manageable components. The reader will learn how to find, criticallyy 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 organizational evidence-based culture and making evidence-based changes at organizational 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
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