Exploring Evidence-based Practice

Martin Lipscomb Ph.D. RN is a senior lecturer at the University of the West of England and Secretary to the International Philosophy of Nursing Society.

• 1. Introduction 2. Making Evidence-based Practice Happen in 'Real World' Contexts: The Importance of Collaborative Partnerships 3. Intra- and Inter-professional Working: Pitfalls and Potential 4. EBP as Taught and Experienced: Education, Practice and Context 5. Critical Considerations in Evidence-based Interprofessional Practice Melody Carter 6. Evidence and Practical Knowledge 7. Evidence-based Nursing and the Generalizability of Research Results 8. Evidence-based Practice and Practice-based Evidence 9. Non-research Evidence: What We Overlook (but Shouldn't) 10. Evidence and the Qualitative Research Analogous Structure 11. The Status and Use Value of Qualitative Research Findings: New Ways to Make Sense of Qualitative Work 12. Research Appraisal and Individual Responsibility: A Critique 13. Ethics and Evidence-based Practice 14. Ethical Competence and Evidence-based Practice 15. Rounding on the Smokers: The Myth of Evidence-based (Nursing) Policy

'This is a rich, smorgasbord of a book… The book offers an important and insightful contribution to the literature and is a ‘should read’ (ethically important) for anyone who is charged with teaching evidence-based practice to nurses or attempting to implement it in their institutional settings... Among the strengths of this book is its in-depth, nuanced and critical exploration of EBP and its role in meeting nursing goals and patient goods. Each author draws on his or her own prior scholarship and background to explore or parse particular aspects of EBP. The complexity involved in the concept of EBP is highlighted in a way that is not available in any other publication of which I am aware.' - Pam Grace, Nursing Philosophy (Vol 17, Issue 2, April 2016)