CINAHL Scope notes describe evidence based nursing as "Nursing practice that bases clinical decisions on research, clinical expertise, patient choices, and critical evaluation of the literature. " The following books deal with evidence based practice:
JOGNN (Lakeland Library and CINAHL)
Web Resources
Best Practice Guidelines
Best Practices Joanna Briggs Institute
http://www.joannabriggs.edu.au/pubs/best_practice.php
National Guideline Clearinghouse
http://www.guideline.gov
Evidence-Based Practice Resources
Evidence-Based Nursing Tutorial
http://ebp.lib.uic.edu/nursing/
Excellent tutorial on evidence-based nursing from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice Tutorial
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/services/tutorials/ebm/
Excellent tutorial on evidence-based practice from Duke University Medical Center Library and Health Sciences Library at UNC-Chapel Hill.
PubMedHealth
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/
Based on systematic reviews of clinical trials, this site provides executive summaries, clinical reviews, and a medical encyclopedia.
General Evidence-Based Practice
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
http://www.ahrq.gov/browse/evidmed.htm
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides evidence-based medicine tools and resources and research findings.
Systematic Reviews
DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects)
http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb/
DARE contains 15,000 abstracts of systematic reviews including over 6,000 quality assessed reviews and details of all Cochrane reviews and protocols.
NICHD Cochrane Neonatal Collaborative Review Group Systematic Reviews
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/cochrane/
Systematic reviews from the Cochrane Neonatal Collaborative with full text provided via the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
PubMed Systematic Reviews
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/corehtml/query/static/clinical.shtml
Clinical queries within PubMed provide systematic reviews of various topics.
TRIP Database
http://www.tripdatabase.com
The aims of the TRIP Database have remained the same since 1997 - allow health professionals to easily find the highest-quality material available on the web - to help support evidence based practice.
