Essential Guide to Evidence-Based Practice for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses

By Dr. Marcia P. Murphy DNP APRN FAHA FPNA, Dr. Beth A. Staffileno PhD FAHA, and Dr. Marquis D. Foreman PhD RN FAAN

The third edition of this award-winning text provides a comprehensive guide for graduate nursing students and advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) to translate clinical research into practice. In today’s healthcare landscape, APRNs are challenged to provide patient-centered care that is effective, safe, efficient, equitable, and evidence-based. Building knowledge and skills in evidence-based practice (EBP) is crucial to successfully meet this challenge and improve patient outcomes.

Implementing EBP in Clinical Practice

This text describes essential ways to implement EBP in clinical practice, including how to search for and evaluate various forms of evidence, design questionnaires and data-collection forms, and analyze qualitative and quantitative data. The authors offer guidelines for evaluating research articles and a variety of EBP activities and protocols that show how to integrate EBP into multiple clinical settings suitable for all APRN areas of practice.

Step-by-Step Guide to EBP

Step-by-step instruction walks readers through the process of finding relevant evidence, appraising evidence, and translating evidence into practice to improve patient care and outcomes. The authors continue the great work of Magdalena Mateo, who created the earlier editions upon which this revision is based.

New Features in the Third Edition

This edition expands information about practice scholarship, provides new strategies for program evaluation, describes frameworks for implementation science and EBP, and offers practical steps and tools for seeking, appraising, and applying evidence into practice.

Key Features

This text integrates EBP concepts related to patient care, identifies the requisite knowledge and skills for practice scholarship, describes practical strategies and tools for seeking and appraising evidence and applying it in practice, and integrates clinically relevant examples that highlight the application of evidence into practice to improve outcomes.

Published by Springer Publishing Company, this third edition is available in paperback format and includes 416 pages. It was published on September 29, 2017, and is written in English. The ISBN-10 is 0826118267, and the ISBN-13 is 978-0826118264. The product dimensions are 7.2 x 0.9 x 10.2 inches.