Jean V. Craig

BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR


Title: The Evidence Based Practice Manual For Nurses (elsevier Science): Description:
Drawing together all of the information about evidence-based practice initiatives and provision of resources, this text provides practical step-by-step advice and information for nurses attempting to find and apply the best available evidence to their clinical practice. Focusing on how evidence-based practice can be used to improve patient care, this book provides guidance on available resources and how they can be evaluated for applying in practice. It includes case studies and scenarios from a variety of clinical settings, and identifies how an evidence based approach can improve patient care. It also provides a practical and relevant guide to the personal skills required for such an approach and explains what systematic reviews are and how they can be used. There is discussion of qualitative research in the context of patient care and practical advice on applying evidence in practice to provide skills on appraising or developing guidelines, and a feature on recent government initiatives such as clinical governance.