Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0443279756 ISBN 13: 9780443279751

Verlag: Elsevier, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Using a clear, easy-to-read writing style, Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses, Midwives & Allied Health Professionals, 5th Edition, conveniently breaks down the skills required for healthcare professionals into manageable components. Reflecting the multidisciplinary team dynamic that has become prevalent in the recent decade, this fully revised text teaches how to find, critically read, and interpret a range of research studies, helping you discover optimal approaches toward helping people reach decisions that are informed by the best available evidence.

• Helps you learn to read and understand research results as a foundation for evidence-based practice, explaining how to search the literature and rank it according to the strength of its evidence
• Features case studies, scenarios, and exercises that bring the subject to life, as well as a full-color format and glossary of useful terms
• Reflects a new, multidisciplinary focus, with advanced clinical practice and evidence application across professions and roles woven throughout all chapters
• Includes a new chapter on research literacy for those who are just beginning to study this topic, as well as a new chapter on how research fits into contemporary practice, with content on interprofessional working and perspectives, quality improvement and service evaluation, and using evidence for learning
• Contains a chapter that addresses the more-strategic concepts of developing an organisational evidence-based culture and making evidence-based changes at the organisational level
• Provides helpful online exercises
• Clearly explains the process of critical appraisal (quality of the study, interpretation of the results, and applicability of the findings to individual patients), and offers practical advice on how to communicate risks and benefits to patients
• Offers enhanced readability with a refreshed focus on accessibility, practical application, and a logical, systematic presentation of both learning and application

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Michael is an associate professor and the professional lead for children and young people's nursing at the University of Bradford. He is a children’s nurse, health visitor, independent prescriber and advanced nurse practitioner, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Megan is an Assistant Professor in children and young people's nursing and is an equality, diversity and inclusion facilitator for the Faculty of Health Studies. She started working at the University of Bradford in November 2021. She qualified as a Midwife from the University of Huddersfield in 2012 with a first and completed her MSc with distinction in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (School Nursing) in 2014.

Megan has worked as a Midwife, School Nurse, Baby Steps Midwife (Parenting Education for vulnerable parents) and as a Specialist Health Practitioner for the Youth Justice Service in Wakefield.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Elsevier
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0443279756
• ISBN 13: 9780443279751
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 5
• Anzahl der Seiten: 225
• Herausgeber: Tatterton Michael J., Fisher Megan J.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: ELSEVIER; https://www.elsevier.com/es-es; ; Mooswaldallee 6; Freiburg; 79108; Deutschland