As nearly everyone in health care knows, the Institute of Medicine considers evidence-based practice (EBP) to be one of the important strategies for improving patient safety and outcomes. Frontline nurses with heavy patient loads and a multitude of reporting tasks often fear, however, that implementing EBP will take time away from their patient-care duties. Finally, here’s real-life evidence, provided by nurses in the trenches, that proves otherwise.
Implementing Evidence-Based Practice: Real-Life Success Stories, published by the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, is the only book of its kind. Authored by Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/PMHNP, FNAP, FAAN, and Ellen Fineout-Overholt, PhD, RN, FNAP, FAAN, it encourages frontline nurses with anecdotal evidence that research-proven, evidence-based practice at the bedside really works to improve patient care and, sometimes, even free up time for more face-to-face patient care.
Ideal for use as a textbook supplement, the inspiring stories, told in first-person, are grouped by similar content and include the following:
- Igniting passion and self inquiry
- Innovating health care
- Incorporating patient preferences
- Improving outcomes
- Fostering teamwork
- Mentoring and teaching
The authors, who are internationally recognized EBP experts, intentionally made the book as approachable as possible, leaving in the storytellers’ voices and leaving out the intimidating scholarly feel typically associated with heavy citations and references.
About the authors
Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/PMHNP, FNAP, FAAN, is University Dean and Distinguished Foundation Professor in Nursing at Arizona State University College of Nursing & Health Innovation and incoming associate vice president for Health Promotion, Chief Wellness Officer and dean of the College of Nursing at The Ohio State University. She is a nationally and internationally recognized author, speaker, practitioner, researcher, educator and expert in EBP, intervention research, pediatrics and child and adolescent mental health. To date, she has received more than US $11 million of sponsored funding from federal agencies as a principal investigator and has more than 150 publications. She is associate editor of the high-impact-factor journal WORLDviews in Evidence-Based Nursing and a member of the United States Preventive Services Task Force.
Ellen Fineout-Overholt, PhD, RN, FNAP, FAAN, is clinical professor and director for the Center for the Advancement of Evidence-Based Practice at Arizona State University College of Nursing & Health Innovation and incoming dean, Frank S. Groner Endowed Memorial School of Professional Studies and Chair of Nursing, East Texas Baptist University in Marshall, Texas. She is known nationally and internationally as a recognized expert in evidence-based practice. EBP mentors, educated in programs created by Fineout-Overholt, are making a difference in patient and system outcomes all over the world. Her work to integrate EBP principles into health care curricula has fostered a program of educational research and sparked changes in nursing education in the United States.
Ordering information
Implementing Evidence-Based Practice: Real-Life Success Stories, Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/PMHNP, FNAP, FAAN, and Ellen Fineout-Overholt, PhD, RN, FNAP, FAAN; published by the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International; ISBN: 9781-935476689; price: US $34.95; trade paperback, 352 pages; trim size 7 3/8 x 9 1/8; available at www.nursingknowledge.org/STTIbooks
