Advancing Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare

**Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Quality Improvement**Develop your skills to expertly conduct evidence-based practice (EBP) or quality improvement (QI) projects! Advancing Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare, 2nd Edition, is a straightforward yet comprehensive guide to planning, implementing, and evaluating EBP and QI projects to improve healthcare quality and outcomes. Building on the legacy built by Geri LoBiondo-Wood and Judi Haber, this edition is newly tailored to meet the goals and strategic priorities of a variety of healthcare settings, with the tenets of ANCC Magnet designation, JCAHO accreditation, and other current regulatory and quality standards integrated throughout. This edition features a new focus on both academic and practice settings, including content informed by recent guidance documents such as The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education (AACN, 2021), Advancing Healthcare Transformation: A New Era for Academic Nursing (AACN, 2016), and the principles of Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity (NASEM, 2021). Also new to this edition are 10 new chapters (including topics related to the impact of academic practice partners; nurse wellness; diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging; population health and innovation; new models of evidence-based practice; and more!) and an entirely new unit on Evidence-Based Practice Innovation in Healthcare. NEW! Focus on both academic and practice settings includes content informed by recent guidance documents such as The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education (AACN, 2021), Advancing Healthcare Transformation: A New Era for Academic Nursing (AACN, 2016), and the principles of Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity (NASEM, 2021)NEW! Ten additional chapters cover topics related to the impact of academic practice partners; nurse wellness; diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging; population health and innovation; new models of evidence-based practice; and more - plus an entirely new Evidence-Based Practice Innovation in Healthcare unitNEW! Tailored content addresses the goals and strategic priorities of a variety of healthcare settings, with the tenets of ANCC Magnet designation, JCAHO accreditation, and other current regulatory and quality standards integrated throughoutUPDATED! Evidence-based practice (EBP) and quality improvement (QI) coverage presents the most up-to-date thinking on processes and projects, as well as examples and excerpts from high-quality, published EBP and QI projectsAdditional practice examples help you prepare to apply key concepts to the practice settingIncreased emphasis on need-to-know content guides you through EBP and QI projectsContributions from 48 expert authors from practice and academia share their expertise on the impact of EBP/QI/research on healthcare outcomesStraightforward yet comprehensive guidance covers planning, implementation, and evaluation of EBP and QI projects to improve healthcare quality and outcomesLogical organization begins with foundational content and then works through the processes of developing EBP and exploring clinical questions, implementing results, evaluating and disseminating information, and innovating in healthcare

**Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Quality Improvement**

Develop your skills to expertly conduct evidence-based practice (EBP) or quality improvement (QI) projects! Advancing Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare, 2^nd Edition, is a straightforward yet comprehensive guide to planning, implementing, and evaluating EBP and QI projects to improve healthcare quality and outcomes. Building on the legacy built by Geri LoBiondo-Wood and Judi Haber, this edition is newly tailored to meet the goals and strategic priorities of a variety of healthcare settings, with the tenets of ANCC Magnet designation, JCAHO accreditation, and other current regulatory and quality standards integrated throughout. This edition features a new focus on both academic and practice settings, including content informed by recent guidance documents such as The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education (AACN, 2021), Advancing Healthcare Transformation: A New Era for Academic Nursing (AACN, 2016), and the principles of Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity (NASEM, 2021). Also new to this edition are 10 new chapters (including topics related to the impact of academic practice partners; nurse wellness; diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging; population health and innovation; new models of evidence-based practice; and more!) and an entirely new unit on Evidence-Based Practice Innovation in Healthcare.

• NEW! Focus on both academic and practice settings includes content informed by recent guidance documents such as The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education (AACN, 2021), Advancing Healthcare Transformation: A New Era for Academic Nursing (AACN, 2016), and the principles of Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity (NASEM, 2021)
• NEW! Ten additional chapters cover topics related to the impact of academic practice partners; nurse wellness; diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging; population health and innovation; new models of evidence-based practice; and more - plus an entirely new Evidence-Based Practice Innovation in Healthcare unit
• NEW! Tailored content addresses the goals and strategic priorities of a variety of healthcare settings, with the tenets of ANCC Magnet designation, JCAHO accreditation, and other current regulatory and quality standards integrated throughout
• UPDATED! Evidence-based practice (EBP) and quality improvement (QI) coverage presents the most up-to-date thinking on processes and projects, as well as examples and excerpts from high-quality, published EBP and QI projects
• Additional practice examples help you prepare to apply key concepts to the practice setting
• Increased emphasis on need-to-know content guides you through EBP and QI projects
• Contributions from 48 expert authors from practice and academia share their expertise on the impact of EBP/QI/research on healthcare outcomes
• Straightforward yet comprehensive guidance covers planning, implementation, and evaluation of EBP and QI projects to improve healthcare quality and outcomes
• Logical organization begins with foundational content and then works through the processes of developing EBP and exploring clinical questions, implementing results, evaluating and disseminating information, and innovating in healthcare