Translation of Evidence into Nursing and Health Care
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4th Ed.
2025 © Springer Publishing Company, LLC
Kathleen M. White PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN; Sharon Dudley-Brown PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FAAN, FAANP; Mary F. Terhaar PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN
ISBN-13: 978-0-8261-9115-1
eISBN-13: 978-0-8261-9116-8
Nursing, Evidence Based Medicine
Additional Details
2020 AJN Book-of-the-Year Award Winner for Nursing Research!
Named a Doody's Core Title in 2023!
Serving as both a text for DNP students and an applied resource for practicing health professionals, this acclaimed text is grounded in an interprofessional approach to translating evidence into nursing and healthcare practice in both clinical and nonclinical environments. The fourth edition delivers fresh and updated content to describe the work of translation from initial planning through achieving a successful outcome. The text presents new exemplars for the most salient DNP projects and discusses how to implement initiatives into practice. Additionally, it is updated to reflect revised AACN Essentials and other national standards.
The fourth edition continues to describe theoretical underpinnings and practical strategies to lead translation efforts and meet DNP core requirements. It serves as both a scaffold for the DNP project and as a roadmap for DNPs as they begin to practice nursing at the highest level. Thirty new examples of successful translation projects demonstrate the process of working through a problem from meticulous investigation of the evidence through careful planning, execution, evaluation, and dissemination of the work.
New to the Fourth Edition:
- • Presents abundant new examples addressing the most common DNP projects, particularly for NPs and other APRNs
- • Provides new content to support successful translation of evidence
- • Demonstrates in depth the process of working through a problem from start to finish
- • Updated to reflect revised AACN Essentials and other national standards
- • Addresses policy and how to implement initiatives into practice
- • Discusses recent revisions to commonly used organizing frameworks
- • Expands appraisal of evidence content to help faculty and students develop DNP projects
- • Describes a fast-growing evidence base for safety and quality work with examples
Key Features:
- • Describes the most important theories and strategies that meet DNP core requirements
- • Presents examples of published DNP projects which demonstrate how to integrate EBP into advanced practice in a variety of roles and settings
- • Addresses the use of evidence to improve nursing education
- • Discusses how to reduce the divide between researchers and policymakers
- • Presents thirty examples of successful translation projects
The authors clearly indicate the book is for DNPs, serving as a "playbook" that scaffolds DNP education and scholarship. It provides clear, thoughtful direction and includes exemplars of projects that demonstrate the process of translation and sustainability of change to transform culture and practice. The authors and contributors are educators and scholars in both academic and practice settings.
Doody's Review
"This book provides useful tools for practice and scholarship and can act as a guide and resource toward translation of research. It presents an excellent framework for innovation and discovery while supporting effective practice and patient outcomes. The book certainly guides translation in the way it "seeks to bring evidence to bear on challenges in the real world of practice using reliable and valid evidence to improve care and robust analytics to evaluate the impact." The third edition enhances the previous work with a book that is well crafted, pertinent to current educational and practice needs, and relevant for the DNP role."
-- Lynne Kuhl, MSN, RN (Viterbo University) Doody's Review - previous edition
"This is a great resource that DNP students and practicing DNPs can use to help them translate evidence into their practice."
-- Michalene King, PhD, RN, CNE (Robert Morris University) Doody's Review - previous edition
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