What Do We Mean by Evidence-Based Nursing?
"The conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients or groups ...requires integration of individual clinical expertise and patient preferences with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research, and consideration of available resources."
--DiCenso A, Guyatt G, Ciliska D. Evidence-based nursing: a guide to clinical practice. St. Louis: Mosby; 2005.
--Evidence-Based Practice in the Health Sciences: Evidence-Based Nursing Tutorial, Information Services, Dept. of the Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
Evidence Based Nursing is divided into a 5-step process:
1. Formulating a searchable question
2. Searching the literature efficiently
3. Appraising the literature critically
4. Applying the result to clinical practice or patient
5. Evaluating the outcomes of the applied evidence in your practice or patient
The first three steps are the ones for which the GCC Library is here to support you.
To learn more about Evidence Based Nursing practice, take the tutorial linked below on this page.
Evidence Based Practice Tutorial for Nurses
This tutorial will guide you through the five steps of evidence based practice with example case studies to better your understanding of each step.
A tutorial is from the University of Minnesota Health Sciences Libraries
Books on Evidence-Based Nursing in the Library
The PEACE Model for Evidence-Based Practice for Clinical Nurses by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781646480029Publication Date: 2021-01-15NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, one of the nation's most comprehensive academic healthcare delivery systems, uses the evidence-based practice PEACE model to prepare all its nurses and position them as essential to improving patient and family-centered care. Not surprisingly, the health- care network has continuously delivered high quality care and improved patient outcomes. Now, nurses everywhere can replicate this highly successful model. In The PEACE Model Evidence-Based Practice Guide for Clinical Nurses, authors Reynaldo R. Rivera and Joyce J. Fitzpatrick provide a road map to model implementation. Readers will learn to formulate and address clinical questions and disseminate findings, ultimately helping nurses integrate evidence at the bedside and through quality research.
Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-based Guide to Planning Care by Call Number: 610.73 B255e, 2016ISBN: 9780323551120Publication Date: 2019-03-01Get nursing care plans right! Ackley's Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care, 12th Edition helps practicing nurses and nursing students select appropriate nursing diagnoses and write care plans with ease and confidence. This convenient handbook shows you how to correlate nursing diagnoses with known information about clients on the basis of assessment findings, established medical or psychiatric diagnoses, and the current treatment plan. Extensively revised and updated with the new 2018-2020 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, it integrates the NIC and NOC taxonomies, evidence-based nursing interventions, and adult, pediatric, geriatric, multicultural, home care, safety, and client/family teaching and discharge planning considerations to guide your students in creating unique, individualized care plans. Step-by-step instructions shows you how to use the Guide to Nursing Diagnoses and Guide to Planning Care sections to create a unique, individualized plan of care.
