EVIDENCE BASED FOR NURSES PRACTICE Appraisal and Application of Research 4th edition by Nola Schmidt, Janet Brown ISBN 1284122905 978-1284122909

CHAPTER 1 What Is Evidence-Based Practice?

1.1 EBP: What Is It?

1.2 What Is Nursing Research?

1.3 How Has Nursing Evolved as a Science?

1.4 What Lies Ahead?

1.5 Keeping It Ethical

CHAPTER 2 Using Evidence Through Collaboration to Promote Excellence in Nursing Practice

2.1 The Five Levels of Collaboration

2.2 Keeping It Ethical

CHAPTER 3 Identifying Research Questions

3.1 How Clinical Problems Guide Research Questions

3.2 Developing Hypotheses

3.3 Formulating EBP Questions

3.4 Keeping It Ethical

CHAPTER 4 Finding Sources of Evidence

4.1 Purpose of Finding Evidence

4.2 Types of Evidence

4.3 How Sources Are Organized

4.4 How to Search for Evidence

4.5 Keeping It Ethical

CHAPTER 5 Linking Theory, Research, and Practice

5.1 How Are Theory, Research, and Practice Related?

5.2 Keeping It Ethical

CHAPTER 6 Key Principles of Quantitative Designs

6.1 Chart the Course: Selecting the Best Design

6.2 What Is Validity?

6.3 Categorizing Designs According to Time

6.4 Keeping It Ethical

CHAPTER 7 Quantitative Designs: Using Numbers to Provide Evidence

7.1 Experimental Designs

7.2 Quasi-Experimental Designs

7.3 Nonexperimental Designs

7.4 Specific Uses for Quantitative Designs

7.5 Keeping It Ethical

CHAPTER 8 Epidemiologic Designs: Using Data to Understand Populations

8.1 Epidemiology and Nursing

8.2 Infectious Diseases and Outbreak Investigations

8.3 Measures of Disease Frequency

8.4 Descriptive Epidemiology

8.5 Descriptive Study Designs

8.6 Analytic Study Designs

8.7 Screening

8.8 Evaluating Health Outcomes and Services

8.9 Keeping It Ethical

CHAPTER 9 Qualitative Designs: Using Words to Provide Evidence

9.1 What Is Qualitative Research?

9.2 The Four Major Types of Qualitative Research

9.3 Keeping It Ethical

CHAPTER 10 Collecting Evidence

10.1 Data Collection: Planning and Piloting

10.2 Collecting Quantitative Data

10.3 Validity and Reliability

10.4 Collecting Qualitative Data

10.5 Keeping It Ethical

CHAPTER 11 Using Samples to Provide Evidence

11.1 Fundamentals of Sampling

11.2 Sampling Methods

11.3 Sample Size: Does It Matter?

11.4 Keeping It Ethical

CHAPTER 12 Other Sources of Evidence

12.1 The Pyramid of the 5 Ss

12.2 Using the Pyramid of the 5 Ss for Evidence-Based Practice

12.3 Keeping It Ethical

CHAPTER 13 What Do the Quantitative Data Mean?

13.1 Using Statistics to Describe the Sample

13.2 Using Frequencies to Describe Samples

13.3 Measures of Central Tendency

13.4 Distribution Patterns

13.5 Measures of Variability

13.6 Inferential Statistics: Can the Findings Be Applied to the Population?

13.7 Reducing Error When Deciding About Hypotheses

13.8 Using Statistical Tests to Make Inferences About Populations

13.9 What Does All This Mean for EBP?

13.10 Keeping It Ethical

CHAPTER 14 What Do the Qualitative Data Mean?

14.1 Qualitative Data Analysis

14.2 Qualitative Data Interpretation

14.3 Qualitative Data Evaluation

14.4 Keeping It Ethical

CHAPTER 15 Weighing In on the Evidence

15.1 Deciding What to Do

15.2 Appraising the Evidence

15.3 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Moving Ratings and Recommendations into Practice

15.4 Keeping It Ethical

CHAPTER 16 Transitioning Evidence to Practice

16.1 Evidence-Based Practice Models to Overcome Barriers

16.2 Creating Change

16.3 Keeping It Ethical

CHAPTER 17 Developing Oneself as an Innovator

17.1 Who Is an Innovator?

17.2 Developing Oneself

17.3 Professionalism

17.4 Keeping It Ethical

CHAPTER 18 Evaluating Outcomes of Innovations

18.1 What Is an Outcome?

18.2 Choosing Outcomes

18.3 Evaluating the Outcomes

18.4 Keeping It Ethical

CHAPTER 19 Sharing the Insights with Others

19.1 Dissemination: What Is My Role?

19.2 The 3 Ps of Dissemination

19.3 Using Technology to Disseminate Knowledge

19.4 Making the Most of Conferences

19.5 Keeping It Ethical

Glossary

Index