Searching for Evidence
Research (scientific evidence) + Nursing Expertise + Patient Preference
What is Evidence-based practice?
An Ovid database that contains only content for evidence based nursing practice and is created by the Joanna Briggs Institute.
What is "JBI EBP database" or "Joanna Briggs Institute Evidence Based Practice database"?
In the PICO question, "Does an oxytocin infusion dosage level influence postpartum hemorrhage?" Name the Patient Population (P).
What is "postpartum women" or "postpartum patients"?
A triangular figure showing types of studies in a hierarchy, where systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and RCTs are at the top and case reports and expert opinions at the bottom.
What is "levels of evidence pyramid"?
Two ways of disseminating research findings.
What are poster and podium (speaking) presentations?
A source of knowledge that comes from another person perceived as an expert.
What is authority?
A freely available interface that anyone anywhere can use to search biomedical literature.
What is "PubMed"?
In the PICO question, "Will scheduled hours of quiet time decrease the incidence of ICU delirium in adult critical-care patients?" identify the Outcome.
What is "decrease the incidence of ICU delirium"?
A publication type that methodically reviews the literature, according to a carefully defined protocol, in order to summarize carefully designed healthcare studies (controlled trials) and provide a high level of evidence on the effectiveness of a specific healthcare intervention.
What is "Systematic Review"?
Must be included in order to avoid being accused by plagiarism.
What is a citation?
Multiple randomized controlled trials reported as meta-analysis, systematic review, or evidence-based practice guideline.
What is the highest/strongest level of evidence?
A critical component of the research process that provides an in-depth analysis of recently published research findings. . .
What is a Literature Review?
The acronym P-I-C-O stands for the important parts of a well-built clinical question.
What is "Patient/Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome"?
A free service to order an article (or book) that the library does not have full-text access to.
What is "Document Delivery"?
Cost containment, efficiency, to define best practices, & provides opportunities for nursing care to be more individualized, more effective, streamlined, dynamic, and to maximize effects of clinical judgment.
What are reasons for evidence-based nursing practice?
Lack of research skill, negative attitudes, lack of administrative support, and time constraints.
What are barriers to evidence-based nursing practice?
An Ovid database that contains the nursing subset of Medline plus Ovid nursing journals.
What is "Ovid Nursing Database"?
Sometimes left out of a search strategy, this PICO element is used to analyze interventions side by side.
What is "C - Comparison"?
A systematic and comprehensive review of the literature that includes pooled numerical data to increase the statistical power of the effects of the treatment.
What is a "meta-analysis"?
A systematic process of inquiry that uses rigorous, systematic approaches to produce answers to questions & solutions to problems in nursing practice.
What is nursing research?
In research studies, human subjects have the right to:
What are 1) be informed about the study, 2) expect fair treatment, and 3) withdraw from the study at any time?
An evidence-based practice nursing database on Ovid which includes content that does not overlap with any of the other Ovid databases.
What is "JBI Evidence-Based Practice" or "Joanna Briggs"?
Creating a PICO question prior to searching can help you with...
What is "focusing your search" or "search strategy" or "thinking of alternative keywords" or "retrieving more relevant articles"? [Any or all are correct]
A place or person that one can go to for help with searching and locating authoritative, evidence-based health information.
What is the "library" or "a librarian"?
"A brief, comprehensive summary of the contents of the article; it allows readers to survey the contents of an article quickly and, like the title, it enables persons interested in the document to retrieve it. . . .” (p. 25).
What is an abstract?