Comprehensive Systematic Review As the Basis for Evidence-based Nursing Practice

Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!

2012 Second Place AJN Book of the Year Award Winner in Advanced Practice Nursing!

"This book comprehensively and concisely examines the complexities related to asking clinical questions, searching for the evidence, appraising and summarizing the evidence, and getting evidence into practicevñ I commend this book to health professionals who are seeking to do the best they can in health care."

--Alan Pearson, AM
The Joanna Briggs Institute
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide

In an age of rapidly expanding knowledge, it is crucial for health professionals to stay abreast of the most current evidence-based information when making clinical decisions. This textbook is specifically designed to meet the objectives of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) competency that relates to "Clinical Scholarship and Analytical Methods for Evidence-Based Practice." It provides the knowledge and skills necessary for DNP students, faculty and advanced practice nurses to conduct a comprehensive systematic review (CSR). The text sets forth a rigorous, step-by-step approach to the process of conducting a literature search, including both quantitative and qualitative studies, as well as "grey" literature. It describes how to extract and synthesize the most relevant data, how to integrate systematic reviews into practice, and how to disseminate the results.

The volume begins by addressing the basic concepts of systematic reviews and their relationship to clinical practice and policy, before delineating the systematic steps of this process along with the development of a systematic review proposal and clinical question. The book then describes how to find and select the best available evidence and explores specific types of systematic reviews, including experimental, observational, and economic evidence, and explores the current and future use of the process. End-of-chapter application exercises, questions for review, objectives, summary points, and references facilitate learning. Mastery of the CSR process and application of the resultant evidential summaries will be of utmost benefit to nursing practitioners seeking to provide care according to the most current evidence-based knowledge.

• Tailored specifically for graduate nursing courses in evidence-based practice
• Describes how to find and appraise relevant studies, including nonpublished "grey" literature and offers criteria for selecting or excluding studies
• Guides readers through the process of searching the literature for evidence based on the review question
• Explains how to integrate systematic review outcomes into practice
• Compares CSR methods, review of literature, integrated review, and meta-studies

Cheryl Holly, EdD, RN is an Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Capacity Building Systems, and Co-Director of the New Jersey Center for Evidence-Based Practice at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ School of Nursing. She is certified as Train-the-Trainer in Comprehensive Systematic Review by the Joanna Briggs Institute and has offered workshops on Comprehensive Systematic Review across the country. Dr. Holly is the Coordinator of the Eastern Nursing Research Society's Research Interest Group on Comprehensive Systematic Review and Knowledge Translation, and a member of the Committee on Directors of the Joanna Briggs Institute of Nursing and Midwifery, and the Evidence Translation Group, Cochrane Nursing Care Field and a member of the Cochrane Injuries Group. She serves as manuscript reviewer for several journals, including Nursing Outlook, Applied Nursing Research, Nursing Education Perspectives, and the Journal of Critical Care Nursing. Dr. Holly has been PI, Co-PI or Project Director of eight funded research projects. She has published extensively is a national as well as international presenter.

Susan Salmond, EdD, RN, CTN, CNE is Dean and Professor, and Co-Director of the New Jersey Center for Evidence-Based Practiced at the University of Medicine and Dentistry School of Nursing in Newark, NJ. She is the North American co-Convenor of the Nursing Care Field of the Cochrane Collaboration and certified as a Train-the-Trainer in Comprehensive Systematic Review by the Joanna Briggs Institute of Nursing and Midwifery. Dr. Salmon is the Research Editor of Orthopedic Nursing, and has served as a Research, Educational, and Clinical Management Consultant. Dr. Salmond has co-authored three editions of Orthopaedic Nursing (WBS) and has authored two other books, and numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles. She is highly-sought after conference presenter and workshop leader, both nationally and internationally.

Marie K. Saimbert, BPharm, MSN, MLIS, RN, is Reference Librarian at the George F. Smith Library of the Health Sciences at the UMDNJ, Pharmacology Instructor at the UMDNJ-School of Nursing, and has served in the past as a Nurse/Pharmacist Informatics Consultant, at the Valley Health System in Ridgewood, NJ. She is an active member of the Medical Library Association, Nursing and Allied Health and Pharmacy and Drug Information Sections, the NY/NJ Chapter of the MLA, and the Health Science Library Association of New Jersey (HSLANJ). She serves on the EBSCO Biomedical Advisory Board. Ms. Saimbert has published 9 articles and 9 recurring columns in the HSLANJ ePULSE and has been intimately involved in presentations and posters on information science and education topics. She is proficient in searching health science databases on a variety of platforms for retrieving evidence-based information.