Research Guides: NURS 2100: General Nutrition: Evidence-Based Nursing

Best Practices and Guidelines

Cochrane Library
A collection of three databases (CDSR, CENTRAL, and Clinical Answers) that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.

Trip Database
Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence, including practice guidelines, to support their practice and/or care
Best Practice Guidelines - Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO)
Best Practice Guidelines developed by Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) as part of their nursing best practice guidelines project begun in 1999
American College Physicians (ACP) Clinical Practice Guidelines
ACP produces "evidence-based clinical practice guidelines," which means our guidelines follow a rigorous development process and are based on the highest quality scientific evidence.
Quality and Patient Safety from AHRQ
Resources from AHRQ to improve patient safety and quality of care.
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI)
The Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) is an independent, nonprofit health care improvement organization that is a collaboration of medical groups, hospitals, nonprofit health plans, employers, and consumers.
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
An independent panel of non-Federal experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine and is composed of primary care providers that conducts scientific evidence reviews of a broad range of clinical preventive health care services and develops recommendations for primary care clinicians and health systems.
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (UK)

Essentials of Nursing Research by Denise F. Polit; Cheryl Tatano Beck
ISBN: 9781496351296

Publication Date: 2017

Essentials of Nursing Research is designed to teach students how to read, understand, analyze, and evaluate research reports in nursing practice.
Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare by Bernadette Melnyk; Ellen Fineout-Overholt
ISBN: 9781451190946

Publication Date: 2014

The Third Edition of Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare covers all the steps students need to make evidence-based practice part of their clinical decision making and everyday nursing practice.
Encyclopedia of Nursing Research by Joyce J. Fitzpatrick
Publication Date: 2018

This award-winning nursing reference, meticulously researched by luminaries in the field, represents the state of the art in nursing science. Comprehensive and concise, entries provide the most relevant and current research perspectives and demonstrate the depth and breadth of nursing research today.