Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals, Fourth Edition - 4th Edition

About the Book

Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals has proven to be one of the most foundational books on EBP in nursing and healthcare.

Book Synopsis

Awarded third place in the 2021 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Professional Development!

The dynamic and competitive US healthcare environment requires healthcare professionals who are accountable to provide efficient and effective care. New evidence is continually surfacing in nursing and medical environments. Consumer pressure and increased patient expectations place an even greater emphasis on the need for healthcare professionals to deliver true evidence-based care in their daily practice.

Johns Hopkins Nursing is steadfastly dedicated to making it easy for frontline nurses, health professionals, and students to use best evidence in their everyday practice. With each edition, we revise based on the honest, frank, and generous feedback we receive from frontline users of the Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Model from across the globe. In this fourth edition, we are excited to be able to share these changes.

The 2021 revised JHEBP Model underscores the need for organizations to cultivate both a spirit of inquiry and an environment of learning that encourages questioning and seeking best evidence and its implementation and adoption in practice. Although our model was developed, tested, and implemented by and for nurses, we have had numerous requests and feedback from other health professionals to use the Hopkins model. Thus, we introduce the fourth edition with a new title-Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals. This change reflects the growing evidence base of the importance for interprofessional collaboration and teamwork, particularly when addressing complex care issues such as those often tackled by EBP teams. In this edition, our overarching aim is to provide practical and pragmatic explanations, approaches, and tools to guide and support teams engaging in EBP projects:

• We explicitly reflected the interprofessional nature of the EBP process and its use by all disciplines who serve, interact with, and care for those who seek services.
• We revised the flow of the book chapters across the sections to reflect the progression of steps in the EBP process.
• We included a new introduction for the evidence section that includes background on the use of evidence hierarchies, tips for differentiating research from quality improvement, and further explanation of the summary and synthesis steps in the evidence process.
• We provided real-world examples for how to complete all tools using feedback from our global users as well as tried and tested helpful hints.
• We added a new chapter to expand and amplify strategies for dissemination that includes how to create a dissemination plan, audience-specific recommendations for internal and external dissemination venues, details of the pros and cons of different types of dissemination, guidance on submitting manuscripts for publication, and an overview of the journal review process.
• Chapter-specific enhancements:
• Chapter 3: Defines critical thinking and clinical reasoning and differentiates their use in the PET process.
• Chapter 4: Outlines stakeholder selection criteria and an algorithm to determine the need for an EBP project.
• Chapter 5: Includes new information on the literature screening process to navigate a large number of results Chapter 6: Provides useful clarifications of research approaches, designs, and methods with a focus on frontline staff as the target audience
• Chapter 8: Includes revised synthesis and translation steps; assesses risk prior to translation; prioritizes translation models accessible to frontline staff with a focus on the QI methodology and PDSA; and describes an expanded list of outcome measures to determine the success of an EPB project.

Review Quotes

"The fourth edition is an exceptional guide to ensure evidence-based practice is a core competency of nurses. The authors effectively communicate actionable strategies for clinicians to determine which EBP projects will yield measurable practice improvements. They artfully address the cultural and behavioral needs and motivations that influence the success of teams and organizations as they implement EBP changes. Through the use of well-defined tools, users will accurately evaluate evidence, develop strong implementation plans, and understand pathways for dissemination."

-Jennifer Williams, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, CEN, CCRN-K

Director of Nursing Practice, Research and Professional Development

The University of Kansas Health System

"Johns Hopkins Evidenced-Based Practice for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals is an excellent resource that can be utilized to create an EBP culture. The authors present the EBP process in ways that staff can understand so it is not overwhelming. As the facilitator for our EBP & Research Council, we chose the Johns Hopkins EBP model, and it was the best decision we made!"

-Elena Vidrine, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, RN-BC

Director of Nursing Professional Development

Children's Hospital New Orleans

"Another great update. I have used this book for 10 years as a text in a nursing course. The additions and upgrades including search content, databases, and use of forms are important revisions. The inclusion of interprofessional focus aligns with current healthcare needs for evidence-based practice. Practicing nurses find the Johns Hopkins Model easy to use to enable improving care. The book can be used in a variety of healthcare programs and different degrees."

-Martha Jenner, MSN, RNC-OB

Professor, RN-to-BSN Program

Florida SouthWestern State College

"As the nurse anesthesiology (NA) profession continues to fully transition all NA educational programs (NAEP) to entry-level doctoral degrees, the crucial question is: How do we achieve the scholarship requirement? There are challenges and barriers in the completion of the academic piece, with an additional question of: How do we marry evidence and clinical practice? As an NAEP practice doctorate, we, as clinical practitioners, academicians, and researchers, do not want to overstretch our already overwhelmed healthcare systems. Rather, our primary goal is to improve clinical outcomes and keep our patients safe. Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals, Fourth Edition, systematically and thoroughly describes the PET process: how to identify the practice question, examine the most recent evidence, and guide the practitioner to efficiently translate the evidence as applicable to clinical practice. The problem, intervention, comparison, and outcome (PICO) model methodically guides all researchers from all levels of expertise using this comprehensive evidence-based process. The Johns Hopkins EBP model is the best fit for our NAEP since it not only streamlines the academic scholarship piece but also connects what is germane to day-to-day clinical practice: to promote patient safety."

-Jose D. Castillo III, PhD, MSNA, CRNA, APRN

Assistant Professor of Nurse Anesthesia

Texas Wesleyan University