NMETH 533: Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice Resources   Tags: evidence based practice, evidence-based nursing  

What is evidence-based practice?

Evidence based medicine is the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. The practice of evidence based medicine means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research. Sackett DL, Rosenberg WMC, Gray JAM, Haynes RB, Richardson WS. Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't. BMJ 1996 Jan 13; 312 (7023): 71-2.

What is Evidence-based nursing practice?

A way of providing nursing care that is guided by the integration of the best available scientific knowledge with nursing expertise. This approach requires nurses to critically assess relevant scientific data or research evidence, and to implement high-quality interventions for their nursing practice. (NLM PubMed MeSH)

Check the Nurse Practitioner Toolkit for EBP resources.

Overview of EBP for Nurses: 12 article American Journal of Nursing series from the Arizona State University College of Nursing and Health Innovation's Center for the Advancement of Evidence-Based Practice. http://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/pages/collectiondetails.aspx?TopicalCollectionId=10

User Guides to Evidence-Based Practice, developed by McMaster University's Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group, and disseminated on the Internet by the Canadian Centre for Health Evidence.

Evidence-Based Medicine Glossary from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford, UK.

Nurse Practitioner Toolkit: http://hsl.uw.edu/toolkits/dnp