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Evidence Based Nursing

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Getting Started

Evidence Based Nursing

From the University of Minnesota.  Includes definitions, models, barriers, and mnay other issues

Introduction to Evidence Based Medicine

Tutorial developed by Duke University Medical Center Library and the Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Well-Built Clinical Question

Duke University Medical Center Library and Health Sciences Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Formulating Answerable Clinical Questions

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital

Focusing Clinical Questions

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford

Formulating Patient Centered Questions

University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago

How to Read a Paper

A collection of excellent articles on critical appraisal of the literature from the British Medical Journal

Best Practices/Guidelines

National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)

A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines

Best Practice Guidelines

Best Practice Guidelines developed by Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) as part of their nursing best practice guidelines project begun in 1999.

Best Practice Information Sheets

Summary information on best practice guidelines by the Joanna Briggs Institute of Australia. The guideline summaries are searchable.

RCN Clinical Guidelines

Practice guidelines from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in the United Kingdom.

Databases

CINAHL
Leading research from publications in the fields of nursing and allied health from 1982 to the present.
ClinicalTrials.gov
ClinicalTrials.gov currently contains approximately 11,300 clinical studies sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, other federal agencies, and private industry on a wide range of diseases and conditions.
Cochrane Liobrary
The Cochrane Library provides access via the web to reliable information compiled by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international network of individuals and institutions committed to preparing, maintaining, and disseminating systematic, up-to-date reviews of the effects of health care.
Medline
The primary database of information in medical and health sciences fields including the International Nursing Index, a subset of MEDLINE
STTI Registry of Nursing Research
Searchable database of over 10,000 nursing research studies; from Sigma Theta Tau International, the International Honor Society of Nursing
TRIP (Turning Research in Practice)
TRIP was created in 1997 to bring together all the 'evidence-based' healthcare resources available on the Internet.

Models and Tools

ACE Star Model of the Cycle of Knowledge Transformation
Model for evidence-based practice by K. R. Stevens of the Academic Center for Evidence Based Nursing at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio

A Guide to Research Methods
Illustrates and explains the various research studies such as double-blind, cohort, randomized controlled etc. Prepared by SUNY Downstate Medical Center Medical Research Library of Brooklyn

Iowa Model of Evidence Based Practice

Provides a guide for clinical decision-making, it provides details regarding implementation of evidence-based practice, and it includes both the practitioner and organizational perspective. Method for Grading Health Care Recommendations
Recommendations from the Center for Health Care Evidence

Levels of Evidence and Grades of Recommendation
Oxford Centre for Evidence Based Medicine

EBM Toolkit
An assortment of materials which are very useful for practitioners of evidence-based practice complied by the Oxford Centre for Evidence Based Medicine

Teaching/Learning Resources for Evidence Based Practice
Research Centre for Transcultural Studies in Health at Middlesex University includes explanation of four part PICO model

 


Library Resources

Books

Evidence based practice in nursing a guide to successful implementation -
Marblehead, MA : HCPro, 2006.

WY 20.5 B573E 2006

The evidence based practice manual for nurses - New York : Churchill
Livingstone, 2002.

WY 20.5 E92C 2002

Introduction to evidence-based practice in nursing and health care - Sudbury,
MA : Jones and Bartlett, 2006.

WY 20.5 I61M 2006

Nursing research methods and critical appraisal for evidence-based practice -
6th ed. - St. Louis, MO : Mosby Elsevier, 2006.

WY 20.5 N974L 2006

This title is accompanied by a CD-ROM.

 

Research Based Nursing Journals

ANS Advances in Nursing Science 10-25  (1987-2002).
Applied Nursing Research 6-- (1993--).
Fulltext available
Journal of Nursing Scholarship  32-- (2000--)
Fulltext available
Nursing Research 14-- (1965--)

Nursing Science Quarterly 9-- (1996--).
Fulltext available

Oncology Nursing Forum 11-- (1984--)

Research in Nursing and Health 8-26 (1985-2003).

Western Journal of Nursing Research 164-- (1996--).
Fulltext available