Implementing the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Competencies in Healthcare - by Bernadette Melnyk & Lynn Gallagher-Ford & Ellen Fineout-Overholt

About the Book

Implementing the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Competencies in Healthcare serves as a guide to achieving EBP competency, facilitating evidence-based decision making in daily practice, and accelerating the speed at which research knowledge is translated into real-world settings to improve health outcomes and decrease healthcare costs.

Book Synopsis

Hospitals and healthcare systems around the world have attempted to build and sustain evidence-based practice (EBP) cultures and environments, yet they have struggled to clearly understand what EBP competency means. Implementing the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Competencies in Healthcare clears up that confusion and serves as a guide for clinicians, leaders, faculty, EBP mentors, and students in achieving EBP competency, facilitating evidence-based decision making in daily practice, and accelerating the speed at which research knowledge is translated into real-world settings to improve health outcomes and decrease healthcare costs.

Authors Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, Lynn Gallagher-Ford, and Ellen Fineout-Overholt provide step-by-step explanations and case scenarios that illustrate realistic advice and ready-to-use resources to help organizations integrate EBP broadly and deeply across their infrastructure to improve patient care quality and safety.

Doody 5 Star Review

"This exemplary work divides EBP into small, palatable components that highlight its indispensability in nursing practice. To my knowledge, there is no other reference that identifies EBP competencies better -- if at all."

-Jill P. Massengale, BSN, MS, DNP(James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital)

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Review Quotes

"This book fills a significant gap in the literature and emphasizes the importance of evidence-based practice in expert clinical practice. The authors are champions in the EBP field, and all who read this book will find it empowering. I am excited to see a body of knowledge organized in one book that will truly impact how EBP can be effectively implemented throughout healthcare systems locally and globally. Congratulations on such a landmark publication!"
-Marilyn Hockenberry, PhD, RN-PPCNP-BC, FAAN
Bessie Baker Professor of Nursing, Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Dean for Research Affairs
Duke University School of Nursing
Chair, Duke Institutional Review Board

"In our fast-paced healthcare environment, implementing evidence into practice is even more critical to improve outcomes. As leaders, we need to embrace evidence-based practice and are responsible for building the culture of inquiry that will move healthcare forward. This book covers the practical, step-by-step guidelines to implement such a culture. Melnyk, Gallagher-Ford, and Fineout-Overholt do an excellent job of providing the competencies necessary to implement and sustain an evidencebased practice culture."
-Jeanine M. Rundquist, DNP, RN, NEA-BC
Director of Performance, Practice and Innovation and Magnet Program Director
Children's Hospital Colorado

"Competence in evidence-based practice (EBP) is key to the success of RNs and APNs in implementing,
sustaining, and disseminating best practices. These research-based EBP competences are presented as a user-friendly, easy-to-implement tool that provides structure and support for nursing leaders in building a culture of EBP that will move their organization forward."
-Penelope Gorsuch, DNP, RN, ACNP-BC, CCNS, NEA-BC, CCRN-K
Dean, USAF School of Aerospace Medicine*
*This should not be viewed as an official endorsement by the School of Aerospace Medicine or the
United States Air Force