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Fosters fundamental skills needed to critically evaluate evidence from published research studies. This is the first resource to provide APRN students and practicing clinicians with a step-by-step guide to critically analyse evidence from research studies. Equipped with these skills, nurses will lead an informed practice and improve patient care.
Turning Evidence-based Research into Health Policy
Describes key issues related to the dwindling nurse supply, most of the causes of which are well known, and outlines research and strategies to enhance the recruitment, education, and retention of the nursing workforce. This book emphasizes the role of doctoral prepared nurses in health care policy development.
Evidence-Based Integrated Care across the Lifespan
Designed as a textbook and reference for nurses and nursing students, this provides a wealth of evidence-based information about the special treatment needs of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The book considers ASD patients across the lifespan and in multiple practice settings. Case studies illustrate scenarios with ASD patients ......
With the goal of advancing quality health care, this innovative text moves beyond the often insular world of nurse leadership values to offer the perspectives of leaders in other health care disciplines that interface with nurses. These professionals describe and analyze their interactions with nurse leaders regarding their role in quality health ......
Presents insights from nurses, nurse managers and leaders, support staff, and patients about how it feels to practice or receive care. It exposes the failures and successes of nurse leadership/management and practice, and encourages nurse managers to make an effort to return leadership and management from a 'systems' to a 'patient-centered' ......
Where does nursing knowledge come from and how does it develop? How do we incorporate nursing knowledge into the practice of nursing? Is it possible for nursing theory to meet the needs of clinical practice? This book answers these key questions in the field of nursing theory.
Focuses on the science and philosophy of nursing knowledge development, with a special emphasis on theory as a tool in developing practice-relevant knowledge. This second edition features important updates and a reorganisation of information to better highlight the roles of theory and the major philosophical perspectives in knowledge development.
By examining pivotal historical interventions across the spectrum of clinical care, this allows nurses of today to incorporate the wisdom of the past into their own daily work. It documents how and why specific nursing interventions came about, what aspects of these interventions are utilized today and why, and how nurses of the past have ......
Patient Safety, Quality, Outcomes, and Interprofessionalism
Winner of two first place AJN Book of the Year Awards!This award-winning resource uniquely integrates national goals with nursing practice to achieve safe, efficient quality of care through technology management. The heavily revised third edition emphasizes the importance of federal policy in digitally transforming the U.S. healthcare delivery ......
