Evidence-Based Practice for Nursing and Healthcare Quality Improvement

Description

Equip yourself to expertly conduct evidence-based practice (EBP) or quality improvement (QI)projects. Written by renowned EBP and QI experts LoBiondo-Wood, Haber, & Titler, Evidence-Based Practice for Nursing and Healthcare Quality Improvement provides a straightforward yet comprehensive guide to planning, implementation, and evaluation of EBP and QI projects to improve quality of care and health outcomes. This brand-new, full-color, richly illustrated textbook begins with foundational content and then works through the processes of developing and exploring clinical questions, implementing results, and disseminating information. The book’s content and approach have been developed specifically with the adult learner in mind, with multiple full-text appendix articles referenced throughout as examples, along with unique pedagogical aids including EBP Tips and EBP Key points to ground concepts in a “real-life” context.

New to This Edition

• NEW! Written by renowned EBP experts LoBiondo-Wood, Haber, & Titler to provide a straightforward yet comprehensive guide to planning and conducting EBP and QI projects.
• NEW! A straightforward, practical approach begins with foundational content and then works through the processes of developing and exploring clinical questions, implementing results, and disseminating information.
• NEW! Developed specifically with the adult learner in mind, with multiple full-text appendix articles referenced throughout as examples, along with unique pedagogical aids including EBP Tips and EBP Key Points to ground concepts in a “real-life” context.

Table of Contents

1. Part I. Introduction
   1. Overview of Evidence-Based Practice
   2. Models and Evidence
2. Part II. Processes of Developing EBP and Questions in Various Clinical Settings
   1. Developing Compelling Clinical Questions
   2. Search and Critical Appraisal of the Literature
   3. Principles of Assessing Research Quality
   4. Intervention Studies
   5. Observational Studies
   6. Systematic Reviews and Clinical Practice Guidelines
   7. Qualitative Studies
   8. Understanding Statistics for Evidence-Based Practice
3. Part III. Implementation
   1. Evidence-Based Approaches for Improving Healthcare Quality
   2. Planning for Success
   3. Launching Implementation
   4. Implementation Strategies for Stakeholders
   5. Patient-Centered Evidence-Based Practices
4. Part IV. Evaluation and Dissemination
   1. Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practice
   2. Dissemination
5. Appendices
   1. Appendix A – Interventions to improve adherence to lipid-lowering medication
   2. Appendix B – Impact of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents on behavioral measures in children born premature
   3. Appendix C – The effect of a translating research into practice intervention to promote use of evidence-based fall prevention interventions in hospitalized adults: A prospective pre–post implementation study in the U.S.
   4. Appendix D – Improving exercise prescribing in a rural New England free clinic
   5. Appendix E – Application of the EBP process: Maximizing lactation support with minimal education
   6. Appendix F – Normothermia for neuroprotection: It’s hot to be cool
   7. Appendix G – 2016 IPEC Competencies
   8. Appendix H – WHO Framework for Action on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice
   9. Index

Authors Biography

Geri LoBiondo-Wood, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor, Director of PhD Nursing Program, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, School of Nursing, Nursing Systems and Technology, Houston, Texas,

Judith Haber, PhD, RN, FAAN, The Ursula Springer Leadership Professor in Nursing, Rory Meyers College of Nursing, New York University, New York, New York and

Marita G. Titler, PhD, RN, FAAN, Rhetaugh Dumas Endowed Chair and Department Chair, Systems, Populations, and Leadership, University of Michigan School of Nursing and UMHS, Ann Arbor, Michigan