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Printed book plus Pageburst™ access. You will receive a printed book and access to the complete book content electronically. Pageburst™ enhances learning not only by bringing world class content to your fingertips but also by letting you add to it, annotate it, and categorize it in a way that suits you. Pageburst™ frees you to spend more time learning and less time searching. The Evidence-based Practice Manual successfully breaks down the skills for evidence-based nursing into manageable components. The reader will learn how to find, critically read and interpret a range of research studies, and will discover optimal approaches to helping patients reach decisions that are informed by the best-available evidence. The more-strategic concepts of developing an organisational evidence-based culture and making evidence-based changes at organisational level are the focus of the final section. * Step-by-step guide to finding, appraising and applying research evidence in nursing * Teaches skills for successfully reviewing published literature: * formulating a focused question * developing a search strategy for efficient retrieval of relevant studies * appraising the retrieved studies * All examples are relevant to nurses and nursing * Reflects contemporary nursing issues * A new chapter on ‘Using research evidence in making clinical decisions with the individual patient’ provides practical guidance and tools for decision-making * A new chapter on ‘Using evidence from qualitative studies’ explains the complexities of qualitative methodologies and methods in a simple, easily understood way Online exercises and solutions * Help the reader test out and consolidate newly acquired skills and knowledge * Provide an rtunity to critically appraise studies with the following range of designs: * qualitative research * a randomised controlled trial * a cohort study * a case control study * a diagnostic test accuracy study * a systematic review * a clinical guideline * Example solutions are provided, all written by experts in the field.