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Evidence-based practice in nursing & healthcare : a guide to best practice

Melnyk, Bernadette Mazurek
Publisher:: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
Pub date:: c2005.
Pages:: xxvi, 608 p. :
ISBN:: 0781744776
Item info:: 2 copies available at Grant MacEwan University - City Centre Campus and Red Deer College.
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RT 42 M44 2005 1 Book Due: 5/31/2012
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Evidence-based practice in nursing & healthcare : a guide to best practice
    Melnyk, Bernadette Mazurek
Evidence-based practice in nursing & healthcare : a guide to best practice
    Melnyk, Bernadette Mazurek
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Personal Author: Melnyk, Bernadette Mazurek
Title: Evidence-based practice in nursing & healthcare : a guide to best practice / Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk and Ellen Fineout-Overholt.
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Publication info: Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2005.
Physical descrip: xxvi, 608 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Variant title: Evidence-based practice in nursing and healthcare
Subject term: Evidence-based nursing.
Subject term: Evidence-based medicine.
Subject term: Evidence-Based Medicine--methods.
Subject term: Nursing--methods.
Subject term: Nurse practitioners
Technical details: System requirements for accompanying disk: Windows 98 SE, NT 4.0, 2000, ME, or XP ; Pentium 300 MHz processor ; 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended) ; 12X CD-ROM drive ; SVGA monitor ; Windows-compatible sound card ; Windows-compatible pointing device.
Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Making the case for evidence-based practice -- Asking compelling clinical questions -- Finding relevant evidence -- Critically appraising knowledge for clinical decision-making -- Critically appraising quantitative evidence -- Critically appraising qualitative evidence -- Patient concerns, choices, and clinical judgment in evidence-based practice -- Using models and strategies for evidence-based practice -- Using evidence-based practice guidelines: tools for improving practice -- Generating evidence through quantitative research -- Generating evidence through qualitative research -- Generating evidence through outcomes management -- Writing a successful grant proposal to fund research and outcomes management -- Disseminating evidence -- Teaching evidence-based practice -- Creating a vision: motivating a change to evidence-based practice in individuals and organizations -- Evidence to guide best practice -- Best evidence to guide clinical practice with adults in acute and critical care -- Best evidence to guide clinical practice with adults in primary care -- Best evidence to guide clinical practice with aging adults -- Best evidence to guide clinical practice in emergency and trauma care -- Best evidence to guide clinical practice with high-risk children and youth -- Best evidence to guide clinical practice in psychiatric mental health.
Added author: Fineout-Overholt, Ellen.
ISBN: 0781744776
key: 2942340
LCCN: 2004009913