Advancing Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare

**Selected for 2025 Doody's Core Titles(R) in Quality Improvement**

Develop your skills to expertly conduct evidence-based practice (EBP) or quality improvement (QI) projects! Advancing Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare, 2^nd Edition, is a straightforward yet comprehensive guide to planning, implementing, and evaluating EBP and QI projects to improve healthcare quality and outcomes. Building on the legacy built by Geri LoBiondo-Wood and Judi Haber, this edition is newly tailored to meet the goals and strategic priorities of a variety of healthcare settings, with the tenets of ANCC Magnet designation, JCAHO accreditation, and other current regulatory and quality standards integrated throughout. This edition features a new focus on both academic and practice settings, including content informed by recent guidance documents such as The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education (AACN, 2021), Advancing Healthcare Transformation: A New Era for Academic Nursing (AACN, 2016), and the principles of Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity (NASEM, 2021). Also new to this edition are 10 new chapters (including topics related to the impact of academic practice partners; nurse wellness; diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging; population health and innovation; new models of evidence-based practice; and more!) and an entirely new unit on Evidence-Based Practice Innovation in Healthcare.

• NEW! Focus on both academic and practice settings includes content informed by recent guidance documents such as The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education (AACN, 2021), Advancing Healthcare Transformation: A New Era for Academic Nursing (AACN, 2016), and the principles of Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity (NASEM, 2021)
• NEW! Ten additional chapters cover topics related to the impact of academic practice partners; nurse wellness; diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging; population health and innovation; new models of evidence-based practice; and more - plus an entirely new Evidence-Based Practice Innovation in Healthcare unit
• NEW! Tailored content addresses the goals and strategic priorities of a variety of healthcare settings, with the tenets of ANCC Magnet designation, JCAHO accreditation, and other current regulatory and quality standards integrated throughout
• UPDATED! Evidence-based practice (EBP) and quality improvement (QI) coverage presents the most up-to-date thinking on processes and projects, as well as examples and excerpts from high-quality, published EBP and QI projects
• Additional practice examples help you prepare to apply key concepts to the practice setting
• Increased emphasis on need-to-know content guides you through EBP and QI projects
• Contributions from 48 expert authors from practice and academia share their expertise on the impact of EBP/QI/research on healthcare outcomes
• Straightforward yet comprehensive guidance covers planning, implementation, and evaluation of EBP and QI projects to improve healthcare quality and outcomes
• Logical organization begins with foundational content and then works through the processes of developing EBP and exploring clinical questions, implementing results, evaluating and disseminating information, and innovating in healthcare

Author: Mary Jo Vetter
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 03/04/2025
Pages: 374
Weight: 1.94lbs
Size: 9.30h x 7.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780323936217
2nd Edition