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AJN's EBP Series

• Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  
• Updated:   6/17/2021
  
• Contains:  17 items

"Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is a problem solving approach to the delivery of health care that integrates the best evidence from studies and patient care data with clinician expertise and patient preferences and values.  When delivered in a context of caring and in a supportive organizational culture, the highest quality of care and best patient outcomes can be achieved.

The purpose of this series it to give nurses the knowledge and skills they need to implement EBP consistently, one step at a time. "  -

 -from "Igniting a Spirit of Inquiry," the first article in the series.

Part I: Developing the Clinical Question

• Igniting a Spirit of Inquiry : An Essential Foundation for Evidence-Based Practice
• The Seven Steps of Evidence-Based Practice
• Asking the Clinical Question : A Key Step in Evidence-Based Practice
• Searching for the Evidence

Part II: Evaluating the Evidence

• An Introduction to Gathering, Evaluating, and Recording the Evidence
• Digging Deeper -- Examining the "Keeper" Studies
• The Process of Synthesis : Seeing Similarities and Differences Across the Body of Evidence

Part III: Implementation

• Following the Evidence : Planning for Sustainable Change
• Implementing and Evidence-Based Practice Change
• Rolling Out the Rapid Response Team
• Evaluating and Disseminating the Impact of an Evidence-Based Intervention : Show and Tell
• Sustaining Evidence-Based Practice Through Organizational Policies and an Innovative Model

Part IV: Disseminating the Evidence & Sustaining the Change

• EBP 2.0: From Strategy to Implementation
• EBP 2.0: Promoting Nurse Retention through Career Development Planning
• EBP 2.0: Data-Driven Precision Implementation Approach
• EBP 2.0: Implementing and Sustaining Change: The STAND Skin Bundle
• EBP 2.0: Implementing and Sustaining Change: The Malnutrition Readmission Prevention Protocol
• EBP 2.0: Implementing and Sustaining Change: The Evidence-Based Practice and Research Fellowship Program
• EBP 2.0: Implementing and Sustaining Change: Implementing Improved Central Line Flushing Practices

ACRL Tool Kit

Borrowed from the American Library Association.

• Click on the ACRL logo above to access ACRL's Evaluating Journals Toolkit
• Provides considerations for determining Journal Quality
• Link to a checklist to support evaluation of Journal Quality
• Links to additional tools and websites that help determine Journal Quality

"The Toolkit was designed to provide its users with a basic understanding of scholarly communication issues in the context of their impact upon libraries. For every issue covered here, users will find a brief introduction to the issue along with links to additional resources that have been curated and reviewed for relevancy, currency, and accuracy. Users will also find various tools, presentations, handouts and other takeaways that they can utilize as they develop their own local resources."

JANE Tool

Summary shared from our fellow Ascension Librarian in Tennessee.

• Have you recently written a paper, but you're not sure to which journal you should submit it?
• Must enter the title and/or abstract of the paper in the box, and click on 'Find journals', 'Find authors' or 'Find Articles'.
• Jane will then compare your document to millions of documents in PubMed to find the best matching journals, authors or articles.

Templates & Worksheets

PICO(T) 

• PICO and Search Query Worksheet [pdf]  
  • from Ebling Library - University of Wisconsin-Madison

EBP

• EBP Rapid Review Workbench (.xls Spreadsheet)
  • Template for documenting the work of rapid reviews with tabs for PICO / Search Terms, Databases searches, Summary Table, Synthesis table.  Created by Aida Smith (Aida.Smith@ascension.org). Used by permission.

• CATmaker - CEBM
• EBM Tools & Calculators - CEBM
• Evidence-based Medicine Tool Kit - University of Alberta

CRAAP Test

Peer Review 101

From our Ascension Wisconsin Library Associates:

You've been asked you to limit your research to peer reviewed articles. What does this mean?

Peer review is the process by which research is assessed for quality, relevancy, and accuracy. 

In a peer reviewed, or refereed journal, each manuscript submitted to the publisher is first reviewed anonymously by a group of experts - peers in the same field of study. These reviewers assess the quality of the research, the accuracy of the findings, and the relevancy of the research to the journal or profession.

Peer-reviewed articles:

• Are also known as scholarly or refereed articles
• Are written by experts in the field
• Are written for other researchers/scholars
• Are reviewed by the scholar's peers to determine whether they are high-quality pieces of work
• Use terms and language that are discipline-specific
• Usually include in-text citations and a bibliography of cited sources
• May include graphs, charts, etc., related to the topic
• Are published by a professional organization or society, university, research center, or scholarly press

Peer Review - PubMed & Medline