Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals, Fifth Edition

The latest edition of Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals remains an essential resource for advancing evidence-based practice in healthcare. A must-have book for educators and clinicians dedicated to excellence in evidence-based practice and transformative change.

Sara L. Hubbell, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC, FNP-C
Clinical Associate Professor Program Coordinator, DNP
Co-Lead to the Well-Being & Resilience Collaborative (WRC)
School of Nursing, UNC Wilmington

The JHEBP model is dynamic and easy to follow, making it an ideal model used in coaching and guiding clinical nurses to develop and implement EBP projects. The updates and evolution outlined in this fifth edition have further simplified the process, which will be welcomed by clinical nurses who are often overwhelmed and intimidated by the complexity of an EBP project.

Marga Kasim, DNP, RN, CNS, AGCNS-BC, CNML, EBP-C
Manager, Nursing Research Department
Loma Linda University Health

Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals has proven to be one of the most foundational books on EBP in nursing and healthcare. Building on the strength of previous versions, the fifth edition is fully revised with an updated Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice model to better serve as a step-by-step how-to manual for EBP projects. The revamped, simplified model features updates to the categories of evidence and appraisal tools, with an emphasis on using suitable pre-appraised evidence.

Authors Kim Bissett, Judith Ascenzi, and Madeleine Whalen present outstanding, thoroughly researched content that is based on more than two decades of the model’s use, refinement in real-life settings, and feedback from nurses and other healthcare professionals around the world. These changes better support real-life EBP projects while saving time and energy.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Part I: Evidence-Based Practice Overview
• Chapter 1 – Evidence-Based Practice: Past, Present, and Future
• Chapter 2 – The Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice (JHEBP) Model for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) Process Overview

• Part II: Practice Question, Evidence, Translation (PET)
• Chapter 3 – Practice Question Phase: The Problem
• Chapter 4 – Practice Question Phase: The EBP Question
• Chapter 5 – The Interprofessional Team
• Chapter 6 – Evidence Phase: Introduction to Evidence
• Chapter 7 – Evidence Phase: The Evidence Search and Screening
• Chapter 8 – Evidence Phase: Appraising the Evidence
• Chapter 9 – Evidence Phase: Summary, Synthesis, and Best-Evidence Recommendations
• Chapter 10 – Translation Phase: Translation
• Chapter 11 – Translation Phase: Implementation
• Chapter 12 – Ongoing Considerations: Communication and Dissemination

• Part III: Exemplars
• Chapter 13 – Exemplars

• Part IV: Appendices
• Appendix A: EBP Project Steps and Overview
• Appendix B: Question Development Tool
• Appendix C: Searching and Screening Tool
• Appendix D: Appraisal Tool Selection Algorithm
• Appendix E1: Pre-appraised Evidence Appraisal Tool
• Appendix E2: Single Study Evidence Appraisal Tool
• Appendix E3: Anecdotal Evidence Appraisal Tool
• Appendix F: Evidence Terminology and Considerations Guide
• Appendix G1: Best-Evidence Summary Tool
• Appendix G2: Individual Evidence Summary Tool
• Appendix H: Summary, Synthesis, & Best-Evidence Recommendations Tool
• Appendix I: Translation Tool
• Appendix J: Implementation and Action Planning (A3) Tool

AVAILABLE ON THE SIGMA REPOSITORY

• Chapter 2 — The Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice (JHEBP) Model for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) Process Overview

This free download is available at the Sigma Repository.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Kim Bissett, PhD, MBA, RN, is a nurse educator and Director of EBP at the Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing. She also teaches at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing’s Doctorate of Nursing Practice Program.

Judith Ascenzi, DNP, RN, is the Director of Pediatric Nursing Programs for Education, Informatics, and Research at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. She also teaches in the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice Program.

Madeleine Whalen, MSN/MPH, RN, CEN, NPD-BC, is the Evidence-Based Practice Program Coordinator for the Johns Hopkins Health System and serves as adjunct faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and the Johns Hopkins Medicine Center for Global Emergency Care.