Author: Kathy Malloch, Tim Porter O'Grady

This text provides an introductory perspective of evidence-based practice in nursing and healthcare. Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare helps close the gap between evidence and practice by providing the knowledge and instruction of how to evolve in a changing healthcare environment.

The Second Edition of this best-selling text has been completely revised and updated with new insights, evidence and references throughout every chapter. There are two new chapters on evidence-based regulation and evidence-based eadership that expand on concepts and elevate the framework for evidence-based management.

Table of Contents 

Chapter 1  A new age for practice: Creating the framework for evidence
Chapter 2  A framework for nursing clinical inquiry: Pathway toward evidence-based nursing practice
Chapter 3  From nursing process to nursing synthesis: Evidence based nursing education
Chapter 4  Linking structure and healing: Building architecture for evidence-based practice
Chapter 5  Living evidence: Translating research into practice
Chapter 6  Journey to evidence: Managing the information infrastructure
Chapter 7  Managing variance through an evidence-based framework for safe and reliable health care
Chapter 8  Partnership economics: Creating value through evidence-based workload management
Chapter 9  Evidence-based practice and health policy: A match or mismatch
Chapter 10  Creating nursing system excellence trough the forces of Magnetism
Chapter 11  Evidence based regulation in healthcare: Challenges and possibilities
Chapter 12  Evidence, leadership and innovation: Solid foundations for management practice

©2010, 335 pages.