| Description |
xx, 352 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Professional nursing and evidence-based practice -- Elements of evidence-based practice -- Global perspectives and borderless knowledge -- Why bother with theory? -- A sampler of conceptual frameworks and models -- Common principles -- Overview of the evidence-based practice process -- Ask and assess : questioning -- Acquire and diagnose : linking the problem with finding best sources of evidence -- Appraise and plan I : all evidence is not created equal -- Appraise and plan II : pre-appraised and synthetic sources of evidence -- Apply and implement I : decision making and integrating preference and clinical expertise -- Apply and implement II : individual nurse implementation -- Apply and implement III : nursing systems of evidence implementation -- Apply and implement IV : national and international systems of evidence implementation -- Assess and evaluate : outcome measurement and revision of plan -- Medical-surgical nursing -- Evidence implementation to provide safe nursing care to laboring women -- Nursing care of children -- Psychiatric mental health nursing -- Nursing care of the older adult -- Community health nursing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Evidence-based nursing.
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Evidence-Based Nursing.
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Models, Nursing.
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Nursing Process.
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| Author |
Hopp, Lisa, 1956-
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Rittenmeyer, Leslie.
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| LC no. |
2011043019 |
| ISBN |
9780803623286 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0803623283 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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