Changing Practice and the Bedside Nurse: The EvidenceBased Practice Perspective Florence Nightingale, an early user of evidence-based data, asked important clinical questions and changed practices that had contributed to high mortality rates. During the Crimean War, she collected data on infection rates, changed practices, and substantially decreased mortality rates. In the twenty-first century...

The utilization of evidence-based practice in nursing is a relatively new phenomenon. Although the medical profession has worked toward evidence-based medicine for nearly two decades, the nursing profession has executed evidence-based practice only since the late 1990s (Jennings & Loan, 2001). The primary goal of evidence-based practice is to improve decision making about patient interventions ...

Clinical practice guidelines (CPG) propose preventive, diagnostic and treatment strategies based on the best available evidence. CPG enable practice of evidencebased medicine and bring about standardization of healthcare delivery in a given hospital, region, country or the whole world. This study explores generation of guidelines from data using machine learning, causal discovery methods and th...

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH): cariostatic agents, community dentistry, community health planning, community health services, decision making, dental caries, evidencebased medicine, facial injuries, fluoridation, intervention studies, meta-analysis, mouth protectors, oral health, pharyngeal neoplasms, pit and fissure sealants, practice guidelines, preventive dentistry, preventive health servi...

By reviewing hundreds of original articles from journals published throughout the world, The Journal of EvidenceBased Dental Practice will provide readers with the best, most current clinical information available—information that will improve the outcomes of clinical procedures. The Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice will advocate the use or rejection of a procedure on the basis of expl...

An extensive amount of research has underscored the benefits of developing higher levels of cognitive complexity and reflective practice among counseling professionals (Buser, 2008; Choate & Granello, 2006; Fong, Borders, Ethington, & Pitts, 1997; Granello, 2002; Pietrzak, Duncan & Korcuska, 2008). This exploratory study examined the degree to which evidencebased pedagogical methods promoting c...

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH): cariostatic agents, community dentistry, community health planning, community health services, decision making, dental caries, evidencebased medicine, facial injuries, intervention studies, mouth protectors, oral health, pharyngeal neoplasms, pit and fissure sealants, practice guidelines, preventive dentistry, preventive health services, public health dentistry,...

At the conclusion of this chapter, the learner will be able to: 1. Discuss the differences between evidence-based practice and evidencebased teaching. 2. Identify the evolution of evidence-based practice within health care. 3. Explain key aspects of critical thinking. 4. State the specific steps involved in evidence-based teaching. 5. List the steps needed to conduct a literature review to find...

Many barriers inhibit nurses from using evidence to guide their practice. The authors describe the development of a Nursing Research Internship Program designed to overcome barriers to evidencebased practice and provide staff nurses with an opportunity for professional growth. Evaluation of the program indicates it has increased staff nurses’ use of the literature to identify and solve clinical...