This book is a response to the need for nursing students to have resources about core Evidence-based practice (EBP) knowledge and competencies for each level of nursing practice degrees. It addresses critical essentials that nursing students must master as they move from one nursing degree level to the next. The book takes an inclusive view of EBP from the perspectives of direct care nurses, advanced registered nurse practitioners, healthcare systems leaders, researchers, and faculty. It aligns EBP content with specific Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), and Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) essentials outlined by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) and addresses leveling EBP process and content across curricula. The book is organized into four major parts containing 20 chapters. Part I: Conceptual Foundations of Evidence-Based Practice contains five chapters and provides readers with necessary foundational knowledge on which to build clinical decision-making skills based on the best available evidence. Part II: Designing And Implementing Evidence-Based Practice Projects contains six chapters that systematically explore the critical elements of conceptualizing, developing, implementing, and evaluating EBP projects. PART III: Science-Based Decisions and Evidence-Based Practice contains three chapters that emphasize the importance of translational research and quality improvement for the implementation and evaluation of EBP. The final part, Evidence-Based Practice: Empowering Nurses contains six chapters that address the importance of an EBP culture and structural empowerment strategies required to achieve and sustain a culture that fosters EBP.

This book is the ultimate, all-in-one study guide to the core information nursing students need for success in all of their foundational courses. Fundamentals of nursing introduces readers to the thorough assessment of patients, the nursing process, communication between nurse and patient, cultural differences, functional health patterns, and the overall framework of nursing practice. The book summarizes the points to focus on when studying nursing history. The most frequently tested information was on Florence Nightingale and her influence. The book also focuses on patient care and assessments. Along with communication techniques, nurses rely on the nursing process when caring for patients. The nursing process is a five-step systematic approach to problem solving. It allows the nurse to obtain both subjective and objective information to determine the health care problem. The five steps are: assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation, which can be remembered using the mnemonic “ADPIE (A Delicious PIE)”. Based on these steps a care plan is conducted for each patient. The book includes information on health assessment, medical-surgical nursing, emergency nursing, pharmacology, pediatric nursing, women’s health, psychiatric nursing, what to expect in nursing school, and ways to decrease anxiety while test taking.

This book is for nurse leaders of the future. It speaks to clinicians who are experts in patient care and are now on a path toward leadership. Several clinician leaders offer their insights in their chapters, while other scenarios and examples drawn from practice appear throughout the book. This book is offered as a resource to those embarking on a journey toward transformational leadership. This work is neither a comprehensive encyclopedia for healthcare leadership nor a traditional text in nursing management. Rather, its purpose is to identify some key issues related to leadership development and contexts for transformational leaders in healthcare. The book is meant to introduce the clinical expert to important issues in their own aspirations toward becoming a leader. It provides a guide to focused current literature and experts on a variety of issues that healthcare leaders face. In this third edition, the authors have made changes to update the messages for present-day and future readers. This new edition expands the scope of leadership to encompass emerging healthcare contexts, transformation of vision, and practice innovations; presents a new chapter describing emerging contexts for healthcare and how to build a respectful culture in which emerging leaders can thrive; and includes a new chapter addressing transformative leadership vis-à-vis changing health care perspectives. It also presents cases and reflective questions that help students apply the theoretical content to their own situations and generate discussion across cohorts of students.

The original inspiration for this book grew out of the authors' experience while co-teaching an epidemiology course for students enrolled in a doctorate in nursing practice (DNP) program. They found it difficult to find a textbook that addressed the course objectives and was relevant to nursing practice. They decided a population-based nursing textbook, targeted for use as a primary course textbook in a DNP program or as a supplement to other course materials in a graduate community health nursing program, would be of great benefit and value to students enrolled in these programs. This book is the result of that vision. The chapters address the essential areas of content for a DNP program as recommended by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), with a focus on the AACN core competencies for population-based nursing. The primary audience is nursing students enrolled in either a DNP program or a graduate community health nursing program. Each chapter includes discussion questions to help students use and apply their newly acquired skills. The third edition adds a chapter on accreditation of population-based programs and provides a list of Internet resources to each chapter. It addresses the increasing interest in the use of social media to address population health as well as other current issues in population-based nursing. As in the earlier editions, this textbook includes successful strategies that nurses have used to improve population outcomes and reinforces high-level application of activities that require the synthesis and integration of information learned.

Education of the advanced practice registered nurse (APRN), especially as clinical application becomes more complex and clinical sites become more challenging to locate, requires additional expertise on the part of the educator. This book provides some insight into the additional methodologies that are available to the educator to address some of these challenges. Unlike other simulation books, this book is dedicated to advanced practice nursing students, their faculty, and the simulation staff that support their training. One third of the content is dedicated to narrative entries written for APRN students, faculty, and simulation staff, each with timely topics surrounding APRN training as well as sound advice from recent graduates, faculty experts, and leaders in the simulation field. The remaining two thirds of the book is dedicated to detailed clinical simulation cases arranged by APRN specialty. These simulation scenarios are designed to promote critical thinking and clinical reasoning in advanced practice nursing students, new APRN graduates preparing for boards, novice APRNs enrolled in onboarding or internship programs, experienced nurse practitioners looking to transition to a new clinical practice area, and advanced practice nurses seeking a review. The prepared simulation cases in this book will aid in alleviating the faculty/staff workload for design and allow the focus to primarily rest on support and implementation to enhance and measure outcomes. The book provides a method and firm foundation for transforming graduate nursing education to competency-based clinical evaluation, empowering programs with standardized templates and interprofessional education options for each case to advance graduate simulation education and research. This comprehensive guide includes all of the most commonly seen and most clinically prevalent clinical scenarios for all APRN specialties. It also includes a broad range of scenarios not commonly found in other simulation books.

At a unique time in history, diverse clinicians and student cohorts have the opportunity to enhance their skill sets in planning, writing, and implementing clinical project proposals. This book shares the “must know” for gaining a set of clinical scholarship tools for writing a concise, scholarly project proposal and beyond to the finished proposal. It provides practical guides for graduate students and advanced clinicians to organize and package their clinical projects into tight proposals that can lead to good project completion. The book guides the reader in using tools gained in previous courses, such as theory, research, and statistics, to develop a sound proposal for a quality advanced clinical project. The “must know” information from these courses is reinforced, and resources for further reading are recommended. Students interact with this book’s content through the ongoing reflective prompts and questions that guide them in reflective writing to better understand their projects and what they propose to do. The book provides students with tools to implement in their own scholarly practice. Three chapters, new to this edition, focus on implementing quality-improvement projects, writing the final project report, and ongoing clinical scholarship opportunities. Chapters, consistent with previous editions, feature boxes offering advice from doctor of nursing practice (DNP) students who have completed project proposals. Each chapter has been thoroughly updated and edited to enhance clarity. In response to reviewers’ requests, new proposal and project tips have been added to many chapters. Key features to engage readers continue from the earlier editions; these include reflective questions, tips for making proposals complete and concise, exemplars, and reader activities. This text helps develop reflective clinical scholars who can write about clinical challenges, propose solutions, and use the methods of quality improvement and research to develop scholarly proposals and projects.

This book begins by exploring how the role of the nurse practitioner has evolved and will continue to play an essential role in shaping healthcare–both today and in the future. Nursing has long been referred to as both an art and a science. It is a practice discipline. Advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) typically maintain competency by obtaining certifications, attending conferences, reading journals, and completing continuing education activities. The book describes what was learned and provides the reader with the current standards of practice in the evaluation and management of conditions typically presented in primary care settings. It stimulates both critical thinking and clinical reasoning. The book serves as a resource to advanced practice nursing students as well as practicing nurse practitioners. Each chapter presents a different clinical specialty area. Common primary care conditions are described with corresponding management plans. Although scientific and evidence-based, the format presents information to the reader as part of a journey, making the book more accessible than the traditional textbook. Global, complex health challenges must be solved in interdisciplinary, collaborative ways, and APRNs must work alongside all members of the healthcare team meaningfully and effectively. The goal of this book is for a seasoned nurse practitioner to share practical guidance, which supports the reader to be better prepared in the provision of high-quality primary care to their clients and families.

This book is a tremendous resource for researchers and clinicians alike and serves as a core text for students in doctoral nursing and other health sciences programs. Its detailed, step-by-step approach to designing, implementing, analyzing, and scaling interventions into real world settings will assist novice and skilled researchers alike. The inclusion of comparative effectiveness research is notable as health systems, clinicians, and patients want and need to make choices between available alternatives—understanding which intervention "works" for which patients in which settings. The book is organized into six parts comprising 29 chapters. It begins at the pilot study phase for intervention research and highlights every step of the way through to full-scale randomized controlled trials. Written in user-friendly format, the content covers designing, conducting, analyzing, and funding intervention studies that improve healthcare quality and people's health outcomes. Chapters cover writing grant applications and show examples of actual applications that have been funded by NIH and other organizations. The book provides additional content on how to move research-based interventions more quickly into real-world settings. It describes evidence-based quality improvement (EBQI) and specific steps in conducting EBQI projects, which are essential for enhancing healthcare quality, safety and costs along with enhancing population health outcomes. The book also highlights real-world examples of evidence-based quality improvement projects that have improved outcomes. It emphasizes the importance of interprofessional teams and focuses on using research-based interventions in real-world settings.

This book is addressed to nurses, administrators, nursing academics, nursing students, as well as other health care professionals, and to the interested general reader. Nightingale was far ahead of her time in setting out the core principles of the new nursing profession, with demanding ethical standards and continuing education to keep up with best practice. The book is organized into two parts containing twelve chapters. Part I, Nightingale’s Nursing: Then and Now, presents what she wrote and did in key areas of nursing and health care: patient care, health promotion, ethics, infection control, pediatric nursing, long-term and palliative care, administration, and research and policy development. Part II, In Nightingale’s Own Words, takes the reader into Nightingale’s best writing itself. It provides selections of Nightingale’s most important writing from 1858 to 1893, thus facilitating the tracing of her ideas as they evolved. Nightingale’s writings are categorized into Nightingale’s early writing on hospitals and nursing, Nightingale’s writing on nursing for the poorest, and Nightingale’s late writing on nursing, hospitals, and disease prevention. The book shows how Nightingale interacted with leading physicians and other health science experts. The prime purpose of this book is to bring Nightingale’s ideas and work to the attention of nurses today, not as a historical figure but as a source of principles, vision, and sound practice in the here and now.

The goal of any nursing program is to graduate competent nurses who are prepared to provide safe care and participate fully within a complex health care system. The need for assessment and evaluation of achievement of student-learning objectives is vital. Undoubtedly, the primary method of student evaluation is through the administration of examinations. This book provides an overview of how evaluation and rubrics fit within the larger nursing education teaching-learning process as more than just a final destination or afterthought. Rubrics should be created with intent, taking into account the student-learning objectives and the teaching-learning process. The book offers practical support for the design of meaningful assignments and provides a process for effective and objective assessment, evaluation, and grading. The first part of the book provides a quick overview of the teaching-learning processes that drive and impact student assessment and evaluation. The second part provides descriptions, uses, and supporting evidence for commonly used assignments. The assignments discussed are: paper assignments, presentation assignments, students’ participation programs, discussion board assignments, reflective journals, case studies, concept maps, poster presentations, and student portfolios. The second part also includes detailed modifiable grading rubric templates for each assignment presented.