Comprehensive Systematic Review for Advanced Nursing Practice

The only volume specifically designed to meet the objectives of DNP courses, this textbook provides the knowledge and skills necessary for DNP students and faculty and advanced practice nurses to conduct a comprehensive systematic review (CSR). It sets forth a rigorous, step-by-step approach to the process of conducting a literature search including both quantitative and qualitative studies as well as ""gray"" literature; extracting and synthesizing the most relevant data; using CSR in practice, and disseminating the results.

This book addresses the basic concepts of systematic reviews and their relationship to clinical practice and policy, and delineates the systematic steps of this process along with the development of a systematic review proposal and clinical question. It also describes how to find and select the best available evidence and explores specific types of systematic reviews including experimental, observational and economic evidence, and the current and future use of the process. It is an essential resource for practitioners seeking to provide care based on the most current evidence-based knowledge.

• Tailored specifically for the DNP Course in Evidence-Based Practice
• Addresses the process of searching the literature for evidence based on the review question
• Explains how to integrate systematic reviews into practice
• Discusses available software, both free & for purchase, for conducting a systematic review
• Covers how to write a CRS proposal and final report
• Compares CSR Methods, review of literature, integrated review and META studies
• Includes helpful pedagogical features including end of chapter application exercises, questions for review; objectives, summary points and references

Cheryl Holly, EdD, RN is an Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Capacity Building Systems, and Co-Director of the New Jersey Center for Evidence-Based Practice at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ School of Nursing. She is certified as Train-the-Trainer in Comprehensive Systematic Review by the Joanna Briggs Institute and has offered workshops on Comprehensive Systematic Review across the country. Dr. Holly is the Coordinator of the Eastern Nursing Research Society's Research Interest Group on Comprehensive Systematic Review and Knowledge Translation, and a member of the Committee on Directors of the Joanna Briggs Institute of Nursing and Midwifery, and the Evidence Translation Group, Cochrane Nursing Care Field and a member of the Cochrane Injuries Group. She serves as manuscript reviewer for several journals, including Nursing Outlook, Applied Nursing Research, Nursing Education Perspectives, and the Journal of Critical Care Nursing. Dr. Holly has been PI, Co-PI or Project Director of eight funded research projects. She has published extensively is a national as well as international presenter.

Susan Salmond, EdD, RN, CTN, CNE is Dean and Professor, and Co-Director of the New Jersey Center for Evidence-Based Practiced at the University of Medicine and Dentistry School of Nursing in Newark, NJ. She is the North American co-Convenor of the Nursing Care Field of the Cochrane Collaboration and certified as a Train-the-Trainer in Comprehensive Systematic Review by the Joanna Briggs Institute of Nursing and Midwifery. Dr. Salmon is the Research Editor of Orthopedic Nursing, and has served as a Research, Educational, and Clinical Management Consultant. Dr. Salmond has co-authored three editions of Orthopaedic Nursing (WBS) and has authored two other books, and numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles. She is highly-sought after conference presenter and workshop leader, both nationally and internationally.

Marie K. Saimbert, BPharm, MSN, MLIS, RN, is Reference Librarian at the George F. Smith Library of the Health Sciences at the UMDNJ, Pharmacology Instructor at the UMDNJ-School of Nursing, and has served in the past as a Nurse/Pharmacist Informatics Consultant, at the Valley Health System in Ridgewood, NJ. She is an active member of the Medical Library Association, Nursing and Allied Health and Pharmacy and Drug Information Sections, the NY/NJ Chapter of the MLA, and the Health Science Library Association of New Jersey (HSLANJ). She serves on the EBSCO Biomedical Advisory Board. Ms. Saimbert has published 9 articles and 9 recurring columns in the HSLANJ ePULSE and has been intimately involved in presentations and posters on information science and education topics. She is proficient in searching health science databases on a variety of platforms for retrieving evidence-based information.