Evidence-Based Practice Manual for Nurses - E-BookEvidence-Based Practice Manual for Nurses - E-Book. E-book. Formato EPUB - 9780702046681

Evidence-Based Practice Manual for Nurses - E-BookEvidence-Based Practice Manual for Nurses - E-Book. E-book. Formato EPUB. <p><i>The Evidence-based Practice Manual</i> 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.</p><ul> <li>Step-by-step guide to finding, appraising and applying research evidence in nursing</li> <p> <li>Teaches skills for successfully reviewing published literature: </li> <ul> <p> <li>formulating a focused question</li> <p> <li>developing a search strategy for efficient retrieval of relevant studies</li> <p> <li>appraising the retrieved studies</li> </ul> <p> <li>All examples are relevant to nurses and nursing</li> <p> <li>Reflects contemporary nursing issues</li> </ul><ul> <li>A new chapter on ‘Using research evidence in making clinical decisions with the individual patient’ provides practical guidance and tools for decision-making</li> <p> <li>A new chapter on ‘Using evidence from qualitative studies’ explains the complexities of qualitative methodologies and methods in a simple, easily understood way</li> </ul> <p><b>Online exercises and solutions</b></p> <ul> <p> <li>Help the reader test out and consolidate newly acquired skills and knowledge </li> </ul> <ul> <p> <li>Provide an opportunity to critically appraise studies with the following range of designs: </li> <ul> <p> <li>qualitative research</li> <p> <li>a randomised controlled trial</li> <p> <li>a cohort study</li> <p> <li>a case control study</li> <p> <li>a diagnostic test accuracy study</li> <p> <li>a systematic review</li> <p> <li>a clinical guideline</li> </ul> <p> <li>Example solutions are provided, all written by experts in the field. </li> </ul>