The third edition of this award-winning text delivers the full treasury of tools that graduate nursing students and advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) need to translate clinical research into practice.

Table of Contents

• Contributors
• Preface
• I. Evidence-Based Practice
• 1. Overview of Evidence-Based Practice - Mary D. Bondmass
• 2. Searching for Evidence - Mary E. Hitchcock and Christopher Hooper-Lane
• 3. Research and the Mandate for Evidence-Based Practice, Quality, and Patient Safety - Kathleen R. Stevens
• 4. Establishing and Sustaining an Evidence-Based Practice Environment - Elizabeth A. Carlson, Beth A. Staffileno, and Marcia Pencak Murphy
• II. Building Blocks for Evidence
• 5. Critical Appraisal of Evidence - Karen Vuckovic
• 6. Identifying a Focus of Practice Inquiry - Lea Ann Matura and Vivian Nowazek
• 7. Conceptual and Theoretical Frameworks - Mary E. Johnson
• 8. Quantitative Designs for Practice Scholarship - Margaret Irwin
• 9. Qualitative Approaches for Practice Scholarship - Beth Rodgers
• 10. Sampling Methods - Mary D. Bondmass
• 11. Designing Questionnaires and Data Collection Forms - Rosemarie Suhayda and Uchita A. Dave
• 12. Physiological Data Collection Methods - Susan K. Frazier and Andrew Bugajski
• 13. Psychosocial Data Collection Methods - Carol Glod
• III. Using Available Evidence
• 14. Systematic Reviews - Kathleen R. Stevens
• 15. Program Evaluation - Karen J. Saewert
• 16. Implementing Evidence-Based Practice - Lisa J. Hopp
• IV. Evaluating the Impact of Evidence-Based Practice and Communicating Results
• 17. Cost as a Dimension of Evidence-Based Practice - Briana J. Jegier and Tricia J. Johnson
• 18. Evaluation of Outcomes - Ruth M. Kleinpell and Anne Wojner-Alexandrov
• 19. Ethical Aspects of Practice Scholarship - Marcia Phillips, Julie Johnson Zerwic, and Marquis D. Foreman
• 20. Communicating Practice Scholarship Through Oral Presentation - Diane L. Stuenkel and Lisa A. Rauch
• 21. Reporting Results Through Publications - Norma G. Cuellar