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Evidence-Based Nursing Practice Guide

A LibGuide

Academic Evidence Based Practice Resources 

Nursing Research Library Guide from McMaster University 

  

  • How to understanding and using evidence informed decision making.
  • British and the Canadians have adapted  formulation "Evidence informed" vs. "evidence based".   
  • 'Evidence Informed Decision Making" is a "broad concept referring to the incorporation of valid and relevant external evidence during the decision making process".

 

  

Qualitative Research Guide (Duke University Library)

  • Online resources to aid in conducting, finding, using, synthesizing, and teaching qualitative research in the health sciences.
  • Qualitative data-data that is not easily reduced to numbers.
  • Qualitative data tends to answer questions about the 'what', 'how' and 'why' of a phenomenon,
  • Does not answer questions of 'how many' or 'how much' 

 

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (York University)

  • Gathers reviews and evaluates them
  • Searchable by topic

Guideline Development - GRADE approach  

  

  • The GRADE approach reflects ‘best practice’ in terms of clinical guideline development 
  • Each guideline proposed is given an actual letter grade,
  • Strength of the available evidence.determines the grade
  • Endorsed by organizations across the globe.
  • The Australian Grade Newsletter gives resources for understanding the GRADE concepts.
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Literature and Systematic Reviews Evidence Based Bursing Practices Resources

Literature and Systematic Reviews Evidence Based Nursing Practices Resources

How to Choose a Design to Review the Literature (BMJ Journal  of Evidence Based Nursing)

  • Reviews 15 different review types
  • Guides authors on review type best for for different research questions.  

Systematic Reviews: Guidance for Undertaking Reviews in Health Care  (Center for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD))

Understanding Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses

  •  Defines in depth Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses 
  • Explains how to use them.  
  • Discusses problems with  “traditional” narrative reviews.  
  • From the Journal Archives of Disease in Childhood Diseases

What is a Meta-Analysis?

  • Defines Meta-Analysis and how to use it.
  • From the Journal of Evidence Based Nursing  t.

Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis: Understanding the Best Evidence in Primary Healthcare Clinicians

  •  Explains the use of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in finding evidence for the Primary Care Physician.
  • From Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 

Additional Sources Evidence Based Nursing Practice Reesources

 

Additional Sources Evidence Based Nursing Practice Resources

Sigma Depository

  • formerly called the Virginia Henderson Global Nursing e-Repository
  • The only USA repository solely dedicated to sharing works created by nurses.
  •  An open-access digital academic and clinical scholarship service
  • Freely collects, preserves, and disseminates full-text nursing research and evidence-based practice materials.
  • The repository is a resource of SIGMA, formerly known as the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International."