Choosing Books to Guide Evidence-Based Practice

Choosing the best evidence to guide clinical practice: application of AACN levels of evidence.

Evidence-based nursing care is informed by research findings, clinical expertise, and patients' values, and its use can improve patients' outcomes. Use of research evidence in clinical practice is an expected standard of practice for nurses and health care organizations, but numerous barriers exist that create a gap between new knowledge and implementation of that knowledge to improve patient c...

Examining the evidence to guide practice: challenging practice habits.

Nurses are the largest segment of the nation's health care workforce, which makes nurses vital to the translation of evidence-based practice as a practice norm. Critical care nurses are in a position to critically appraise and apply best evidence in daily practice to improve patients' outcomes. It is important for critical care nurses to continually evaluate their current practice to ensure tha...

A Guide to Choosing a Particle Sizer

The choice of a particle size analyzer has never been more difficult. There are several techniques from which to choose and variations within each technique. Sales literature claims of specification and performance have become highly inflated, confusing the first-time buyer; the result has been to hinder and not help the decision making process. Many particle sizing instruments were originally ...

evidence-based periodontology: from knowledge and attitude to practice

implementing evidence-based practice to develop nursing curriculum

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