Professional nursing and evidence-based practice -- Elements of evidence-based practice -- Global perspectives and borderless knowledge -- Why bother with theory? -- A sampler of conceptual frameworks and models -- Common principles -- Overview of the evidence-based practice process -- Ask and assess : questioning -- Acquire and diagnose: linking the problem with finding best sources of evidence -- Appraise and plan I: all evidence is not created equal -- Appraise and plan II: pre-appraised and synthetic sources of evidence -- Apply and implement I: decision making and integrating preference and clinical expertise -- Apply and implement II: individual nurse implementation -- Apply and implement III: nursing systems of evidence implementation -- Apply and implement IV: national and international systems of evidence implementation -- Assess and evaluate: outcome measurement and revision of plan -- Medical-surgical nursing -- Evidence implementation to provide safe nursing care to laboring women -- Nursing care of children -- Psychiatric mental health nursing -- Nursing care of the older adult -- Community health nursing
Employers expect new graduates to be well-versed in evidence-based practice--its theory and its implementation.