Evidence summaries:
Practice guidelines:
(Note: you will also find summaries such as systematic reviews, systematic reviews with meta-analysis, and single studies by searching TRIP - see the limits on the right hand side of your results)
Single studies:
(Note: you will also find summaries such as systematic reviews, systematic reviews with meta-analysis, and scoping reviews by searching these resources)
Textbooks:
See How to find background information
(Note: not all textbooks are created equal. Core and course textbooks can be considered summaries, while some others may be of lower quality. When in doubt, ask your professor and/or apply the CRAAP test).
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The 7-step Evidence Based Practice (EBP) model builds on the 5 Steps of the EBP process and adds 2 additional steps as shown in the diagram below (Steps 0 and 6).
"Evidence based practice [also sometimes referred to as Evidence informed practice] is a problem solving approach to clinical decision making that incorporates a search for the best & latest evidence, clinical expertise & assessment, and patient preference values within a context of caring" Mazurek Melnyk et al, 2005
Melnyk, BM; Fineout-Overholt, E; Stillwell, SB; Williamson, KM. Evidence-Based Practice: Step by Step: The Seven Steps of Evidence-Based Practice, AJN The American Journal of Nursing: January 2010 - Volume 110 - Issue 1 - p 51-53 doi: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000366056.06605.d2
Evidence-based practice in nursing & healthcare : a guide to best practice by 
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