A fundamental, reader-friendly guide to evidence-based practice (EBP) for BSN, MSN, and DNP nursing students, Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing explains the conceptual underpinnings of EBP and demonstrates how nurses can put EBP concepts into practice. Replete with critical knowledge, skills, tools, and scholarly development to enable nurses to fully and confidently deliver the highest-quality EBP care, this book eschews a one-size-fits-all approach in favor of unique systematic guidelines for understanding and applying EBP. Building blocks of information grow progressively more complex, enabling their application to any point along nursing’s academic trajectory. Thoughtfully organized to fit a variety of EBP-related course objectives, Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing easily adapts for standalone EBP courses at any level as well as advanced practice specialty courses that integrate EBP content. This book addresses the needs of all nursing instructors, including those who teach at multiple levels simultaneously. Key content includes requisite conceptual knowledge of EBP for building clinical decision-making skills; conceptualizing, implementing, and evaluating EBP projects; applying translational science; quality improvement for implementation and evaluation of EBP; developing leadership and structural empowerment strategies; and analyzing how students at each degree/level work with EBP independently, interprofessionally, and intraprofessionally. Chapters align with AACN essentials.

Nursing's commitment to best clinical decisions / Thomas L. Christenbery -- Using evidence to inform and reform clinical practice / Thomas L. Christenbery -- Integrating best evidence into practice / Phillip Walker and Thomas L. Christenbery -- Setting the boundaries for nursing evidence / Donna McArthur, Rene Love -- Using nursing phenomena to explore evidence / Joanne Duffy -- Evidence-based practice : success of practice change depends on the question / Mary Meyer -- Change theories : the key to knowledge translation / Lydia Rotondo -- How to read and assess for quality of research / Rene Love, Donna McArthur -- Clinical practice guidelines / Molly Bradshaw -- Identifying significant evidence-based practice problems within complex health environments / Nancy Wells, Elizabeth Card -- Organizing an evidence-based practice implementation plan / Alison Edie -- Translational research / Lianne Jeffs, Marianne Saragosa, Michelle Zahradik -- Translational science : bridging the gap between science and application / Lianne Jeffs, Marianne Saragosa, Michelle Zahradik -- Quality improvement processes and evidence-based practice / Susie Leming Lee, Richard Watters -- Evidence-based practice : a culture of organizational empowerment / Thomas L. Christenbery -- Nursing leadership : the fulcrum of evidence-based practice culture / Thomas L. Christenbery -- A prosperous evidence-based culture : nourishing resources / Thomas L. Christenbery -- Advancing evidence-based practice through mentoring and interprofessional collaboration / Elaine Kauschinger -- Evidence-based practice : sequential layering of BSN, MSN, and DNP competencies and opportunities / Thomas L. Christenbery -- Evidence-based practice : empowering nurses / Thomas L. Christenbery.