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
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Section 10
Section 11
Section 12
Section 13
Section 14
Section 15
Section 16
Section 17

Section 9
Section 18

Common terms and phrases

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Bibliographic information

TitleEvidence-based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice
EditorsBernadette Mazurek Melnyk, Ellen Fineout-Overholt
Editionillustrated
PublisherLippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2011
ISBN1605477788, 9781605477787
Length599 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Medical / Allied Health Services / Physical Therapy
Medical / Nursing / General
Medical / Nursing / Research & Theory
  
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