Evidence-based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice

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Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, Ellen Fineout-Overholt
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2011 - Medical - 599 pages

Thoroughly updated and now in full color, the Second Edition of this best-selling book is a user-friendly guide to implementing evidence-based practice in nursing and healthcare. "Real-life" examples assist readers in actualizing important concepts and overcoming barriers to implementation of evidence-based care.

This edition contains a new chapter on implementing evidence in clinical settings and emphasizes all the steps needed in making evidence-based practice part of a sustainable healthcare culture. Web alerts direct readers to Internet resources to further develop evidence-based practice knowledge and skills.

A bound-in CD-ROM contains checklists and other guides to aid readers in formulating clinical questions and appraising various types of quantitative and qualitative evidence.

 

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Contents

Section 1
10
Section 2
11
Section 3
26
Section 4
33
Section 5
73
Section 6
79
Section 7
81
Section 8
109
Section 17
289
Section 18
290
Section 19
291
Section 20
326
Section 21
330
Section 22
342
Section 23
344
Section 24
167

Section 9
126
Section 10
135
Section 11
136
Section 12
156
Section 13
241
Section 14
248
Section 15
276
Section 16
277
Section 25
172
Section 26
185
Section 27
188
Section 28
204
Section 29
205
Section 30
219
Section 31
226
Section 32
241

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