The Evidence-Based Practice Manual successfully breaks down the skills required 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 towards 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 the organisational level are addressed in the final chapter. This popular book comes with helpful online exercises including NCLEX questions for the US readership.

Key Features

• Helps students learn to read and understand research results as a foundation for evidence-based practice
• Easy writing style makes a potentially difficult subject accessible and enjoyable
• Explains how to search the literature and rank it according to the strength of its evidence
• Case studies, scenarios and exercises ‘bring the subject to life’
• Clearly explains the process of critical appraisal – quality of the study, interpretation of the results, and applicability of the findings to individual patients
• Explains the various means of applying data from population studies to the individual
• Offers practical advice on how to communicate risks and benefits to patients
• Contains a glossary of useful terms

New Features

• New editorship brings an international dimension to the content
• Includes a new chapter on mixed methods studies
• Expanded discussion of the evaluation of qualitative systematic reviews
• Updated information on the implementation of guidelines and the current role of evidence in healthcare organisational policy
• Now published in full colour throughout