Bernadette Melnyk, dean of ASU nursing, serves on l6-member panel

Day 4, 40th Biennial Convention

Research and science must drive patient-care decisions.

Evidence-based practice, properly implemented, results in practice-based evidence.

H1N1 demonstrates the need to implement top-quality best-practice guidelines.

The journal has become an essential resource for key evidence-based practice issues.

No history of Canadian nursing is complete if it doesn’t mention the contributions of Helen Glass.

In this column, I discuss how a practice- or policy-based question identifies the type of research evidence needed to answer it.

We continue our journey toward evidence-informed decision making by focusing on the beginning of the process—to clearly articulate a focused practice- or policy-based question.

It was a meeting of the minds—40 health care and nursing education leaders—high in the Andes, convened for the purpose of advancing evidence-based practice in Latin America. The first meeting of its kind to be held in South America, it won’t be last.

It has been my pleasure in the past month to engage in meaningful dialogue with nurses both in Canada and the United States about evidence-informed practice. While the settings for these conversations varied—a national evidence-based nursing conference, a nursing research day in a large acute-care hospital and a seminar for a nursing research interest group—I was delighted to observe significant similarities among nurses in relation to their general enthusiasm for evidence-informed practice, as well as thei

In this quarterly column, I will identify some of the challenges of implementing evidence-informed nursing practice, call attention to effective and ineffective strategies for promoting such practice and recognize ongoing efforts in the field.

Bernadette Melnyk and Ellen Fineout-Overholt, co-authors of Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare, report on the launching of the United States’ first statewide consortium in evidence-based practice.