A TIMELY RESOURCE for ADVANCING the NURSING ENVIRONMENT

EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE

Sites and Information

	ACE Center for Excellence Hosts annual Summer Institute for evidence-based practice. Dr. Pape was one of the FIRST FIVE "Fellows" to receive a scholarship to the First Annual Summer Institute in 2002.
	Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - Advancing excellence in healthcare. Contains some of the most recent EBP guidelines for some disease processes and conditions. Click on National Guideline Clearing House for direct EBP information. AHRQ Alphabetical topic index of evidence based practice summaries currently available.
	HSTAT Free, electronic access to full-text of documents including: clinical practice guidelines, quick-reference guides for clinicians, consumer brochures, and evidence reports sponsored by a variety of government agencies
	Annals of Internal Medicine article about the value of EBP systematic reviews - How Consumers and Policymakers Can Use Systematic Reviews for Decision Making
	Evidence Based Practice Implementation Strategies for Nurses by Peg Allen. A good resource for finding evidence.
	Evidence Based Nursing Journal - Requires subscription, but is a journal of appraised abstracted research relevant to nursing practice
	Institute for Clinical Research Improvement. An excellent EBP resource for disease specific practice guidelines.  Disease processes are listed by alphabetical order. Also linked from the National Guideline Clearing House.
	Nursing Best Practice Guidelines The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) launched the Nursing Best Practice Guidelines (NBPG) Project in November 1999