Translating Evidence into Nursing and Healthcare Practice: A Guide for DNP Students and Seasoned Professionals

By Kathleen M. White PhD RN NEA-BC FAAN, Sharon Dudley-Brown PhD RN FNP-BC FAAN, and Mary F. Terhaar PhD RN ANEF FAANN

This acclaimed book serves as a comprehensive resource for both Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) students and experienced healthcare professionals, demonstrating the importance of an interprofessional approach to translating evidence into practice in clinical and nonclinical environments.

Enhanced Third Edition: Reflecting the Evolution of Translation Frameworks

The third edition expands the Methods and Process for Translation section, providing updated exemplars illustrating actual translation work in population health, specialty practice, and the healthcare delivery system. New information on legal and ethical issues, the institutional review process for quality improvement and research, and teamwork and building teams for translation has been incorporated.

A Practical Guide for Leading Translation Efforts and Meeting DNP Core Competency Requirements

This reorganized edition continues to deliver applicable theory and practical strategies to lead translation efforts and meet DNP core competency requirements. It features a variety of relevant change-management theories and presents strategies for improving healthcare outcomes and quality and safety.

Addressing Key Challenges in Healthcare

The book addresses the use of evidence to improve nursing education, discusses how to reduce the divide between researchers and policy makers, and describes the interprofessional collaboration imperative for our complex healthcare environment. Themes of integration and application of knowledge into practice are consistently woven throughout.

New to the Third Edition

• Expanded Methods and Process for Translation section
• Updated exemplars illustrating translation work in population health, specialty practice, and the healthcare delivery system
• New, more user-friendly format
• Entire new section, Enablers of Translation
• Expanded information on legal and ethical issues
• New chapter, Ethical Responsibilities of Translation of Evidence and Evaluation of Outcomes
• Unfolding case study on translation throughout the text

Key Features

• Delivers applicable theories and strategies that meet DNP core requirements
• Presents a variety of relevant change-management theories
• Offers strategies for improving outcomes and quality and safety
• Addresses the use of evidence to improve nursing education
• Discusses how to reduce the divide between researchers and policy makers
• Supplies extensive lists of references, web links, and other resources to enhance learning

Publication Details:

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Edition: 3rd
• Publication Date: December 16, 2019
• Language: English
• Pages: 512
• ISBN-10: 0826147364
• ISBN-13: 978-0826147363