Teaching Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing

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Teaching Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing

Second Edition

Editors

Rona Levin, PhD, RN

Harriet R. Feldman, PhD, RN, FAAN

Description

Awarded second place in the 2013 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Nursing Education/Continuing Education category

This AJN award-winning text is the only book to teach evidence-based practice (EBP) content grounded in a tested philosophy of teaching and learning. It provides the tools, perspective and context for health educators and practitioners to implement evidence-based care practices and evaluate their efficacy.

Reflecting four years of successful experiences in helping academic agencies understand and implement EBP, this new edition has been reorganized to include updated information and five new chapters. It stresses the importance of mentorship in creating EBP and illustrates how mentorship can be designed and implemented to promote EBP. The text clarifies three principal values:

How to integrate EBP into academic curricula

How to implement an EBP model in clinical settings (for graduate, second career, and CE students)

How to address teaching and learning strategies for specific user groups

Teaching Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing will be of value to clinical and academic educators, educational and clinical administrators, unit managers, students attending CE programs, and students in nursing education graduate programs.

Key Features:

Revises and expands upon AJN Book of the Year Award first edition
Reflects knowledge gained from four years of successful experiences in teaching and learning EBP since publication of first edition
Provides comprehensive and innovative strategies for mentoring and teaching EBP in education and practice scenarios
Describes how to implement EBP at undergraduate levels, for second career students, and in continuing education

Contents

Biographies for RFL and HRF

Contributing Authors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Preface

Introduction to Part I

Part 1: Mentorship: An Essential Component of Creating EBP Champions

1: Defining Mentorship for EBP

2: Mentoring Clinical Champions

3: Mentoring Faculty for Evidence-Based Practice: Let’s Work Together

4: Mentoring Preceptors for EBP

Introduction to Part II

Part 2: Evidence-Based Teaching Practices: Let's Practice What We Preach

5: Describing the Practice Area for Improvement

6: Involving Stakeholders in Determining the Clinical Problem: A Learning Activity

7: Teaching Students to Formulate Clinical Questions: Tell Me Your Problems and Then Read My Lips

8: Integration of Critical Thinking and EBP into “Routine” Practice

9: Searching the Sea of Evidence

10: Synthesizing Evidence and Separating Apples from Oranges

11: Evaluating Clinical Practice Guidelines

12 Strategies for Teaching Statistics

13: Teaching Treatment Effectiveness Formulas

14: Determining Sensitivity and Specificity of Assessment Tools for Formulating “At Risk” Nursing Diagnoses

15: Teaching Sensitivity and Specificity for Medical and NP Practice

16: Conducting a Gap Analysis

17: Outcome Evaluation for Programs Teaching EBP

Introduction to Part III

Part 3: Strategies for Creating an Academic Culture for EBP

18: Refocusing the Academic Culture

19: Teaching EBP throughout an Undergraduate Curriculum

20: "Second" Thoughts on Teaching EBP

21: Integrating EBP in Doctoral Education: NYU

22: Integrating EBP into DNP Education: The Pace Experience

Introduction to Part IV

Part 4: Strategies for Creating a Practice Culture for EBP

23: Implementing an EBP Council in a Hospital Setting: NWH

24: Establishing a Questioning Practice Community

25: Implementing an EBPI Improvement Program in a Community Health Agency: The Visiting Nurse Service of New York Experience (Part I)

26: Implementing an EBPI Improvement Program in a Community Health Agency: The Visiting Nurse Service of New York Experience (Part II)

Introduction to Part V

Part 5: Strategies for Crafting Creative Collaborations for EBP

27: Establishing an EBP Alliance: Come Together Right Now

28: Global Partnerships for EBP: Crossing State and National Boundaries

Glossary

Annotated Bibliography

Authors

Rona F. Levin, PhD, RN, is internationally recognized for her work in evidence-based practice improvement. In 2015, Sigma Theta Tau International presented her with their Evidence-Based Practice Award. She and co-editor, Dr. Harriet Feldman, won AJN Book of the Year Awards for the first (2006) and second (2013) editions of Teaching Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing published by Springer.

Dr. Levin, now in a preferred state (semi-retired), practiced in almost every clinical service at the beginning of her career. In 1968, she developed the idea for and implemented as the nurse manager a new unit at then Long Island Jewish Hospital, known as self-directed patient care, which embodied all the components of evidence-based nursing practice, integrating evidence-based care with patients values and goals, and her clinical experience and caring, before EBP became the by-word for nursing practice.

Harriet R. Feldman, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Dean, Lienhard School of Nursing, Pace University.

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