Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice: Model and Guidelines

by Deborah Dang, Deborah Dang

The birth place of Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University continues to be a leader in the health care profession. Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Models and Guidelines Second Edition has been revised and updated with new case studies and exemplars. Evidence-Based Practice Second Edition covers practical guidelines on the model with exemplars, a question and development tool, evidence rating scale, project management, appraisal forms, and evidence summary documents. This book helps nurses, not only understand the theory, but also put it into action. Evidence-Based Practice Second Edition is a hand book for nurses and a text book for students. The Evidence Based Practice Second Edition has expanded and improved tool and form including additional guidelines for individual appraisals and both research and non-researched-based evidence.

264 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2012

Reviews

[Jann · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was relatively easy to follow and has tools to help assess evidence quality. I’ll definitely need to refer back to it for at least grad school. I’m not sure how much practical application it has outside that world.

[Rainier Moreno-Lacalle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-based Practice (JHNEBP) book is one of the finest model written on the topic of translating research/ evidences into practice. To a large extent, it is useful to countries like the Philippines with a very limited resources. The book had a very strong start by convincing the clinician (reader) that EBP can really save lives or decrease complication rate by quoting works by Aiken, Bergstrom, Hill and many more. They emphasized critical thinking, reasoning, reflection, and judgment as important ingredients in EBP. I like the term intellectual humility as an important virtue of critical thinker.

More so, the flow of the prose is accessible, applicable, and practical. It invites nurse scientists to use JHNEBP model, providing many examples that can be true across clinical/community area. Lastly, it balances robust evidence, patient preferences/ values, and clinical expertise as major considerations in the success of an EBP project. Today, I am learning the principles first hand by applying each of the 18 steps in one of the local hospital here in the Philippines.