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Evidence Based Nursing Practice

Books

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:

Evidence-based nursing: the research-practice connection

Nurse to nurse. Evidence based practice

Evidence-based nursing guide to disease management

Nursing diagnosis handbook: an evidence-based guide to planning care

Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice

Evidence-based nursing care guidelines: medical-surgical interventions

Evidence-based nursing: an introduction

Introduction to evidence-based practice in nursing and health care

Best practices: evidence-based nursing procedures

Johns Hopkins nursing evidence-based practice model and guidelines

Evidence-Based Journals

Evidence-based research articles can be found in the CINAHL database by limiting your search with Evidence-Based Practice and Research Article.

The following periodicals have a high percentage of evidence-based articles:

Bandolier (online)

Best Practice in CINAHL

Clinical Effectiveness in Nursing (online)

Contemporary OB/GYN in CINAHL

Evidence-Based Cardiovascular Medicine in Electronic Journal Center

Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Medicine in CINAHL

Evidence-Based Healthcare in Electronic Journal Center

Evidence-Based Healthcare and Public Health in Electronic Journal Center

Evidence-Based Medicine in CINAHL

Evidence-Based Mental Health in CINAHL

Evidence-Based Midwifery in CINAHL

Evidence-Based Nursing (BMJ product in CINAHL)

Evidence-Based Practice in CINAHL

Evidence-Based Obstetrics & Gynecology in Electronic Journal Center

Evidence-Based Oncology in Electronic Journal Center

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

Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice
Evidence-Based Practice Resources on the World Wide Web
http://www.acestar.uthssa.edu/Resources_www.htm
Links to evidence-based internet sites from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

Evidence-Based Resources at UNC-Chapel Hill
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Tutorials/EBN/web.htm
Links to evidence-based internet sites from the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel hill.

Nesbit Guide to Evidence-Based Resources
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/hslt/miner/digital_library/evidence_based_resources.cfm
Links to evidence-based internet sites from the University of Rochester Medical Center Library.

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.