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CEL Resources

Articles

Best Practices Initiative Nurturing Partnerships that Promote Change.
Harvath, T.A., Flaherty-Robb, M., White, D.L., Amann Talerico, K. and Hayden, C. (2007). Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 33(11): 19-26.

Partners in Caregiving in a Special Care Environment: Cooperative Communication Between Staff and Families on Dementia Units.
Robinson, J., Curry, L., Gruman, C., Porter, M., Henderson, C. R., Pillemer, K. (2007). The Gerontologist, 47(4): 504-515.

Evidence Based Practice Resources

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Evidence Based Practice Centers (EPC) reports, clinical guidelines, and much more.

American Journal of Nursing- Nursing Center

A New Look at the Old Series (includes streaming video Webcasts)

How to "Try This" - Series Assessments and Best Practices for Older Adults

Wound Management (Duke)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Many evidence based practice resources.
CDC Fall prevention resources

Consult GeriRN
Online resources for care of older adults. Many are evidence based.

Evidence-Based Nursing: Guide and Tools
A list of links to evidence based health care information from McMaster University.

John H Hartford Foundation - Institute for Geriatric Nursing
Try This A series of assessment tools provide knowledge of best practices in the care of older adults(Try this).

Joanna Briggs Institute Best Practice in Allied Health
Best Practice: Evidence-based information sheets.

National Guidelines Clearinghouse
A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines

Fall Prevention guideline summary from University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center

Nursing Best Practice Guidelines
From the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, in-depth guidelines for a variety of conditions.

Oncology Nursing Society Evidence-Based Practice Resource Area
Includes guides to identify critically appraise and use evidence to solve clinical problems and in developing evidence-based practice protocols.

RCN Clinical Guidelines
From the Royal College of Nursing

University of Anchorage Alaska Health Sciences Information Services
Resources related to EBP, includes a quantitative and qualitative evidence hierarchy.

Online Tutorials/Users Guides

Evidence Based Medicine: Finding the Best Clinical Literature
From the University of Illinois at Chicago Health Sciences Library this guide is designed to assist health care professionals and students become effective and efficient users of the medical literature.

Evidence Based Nursing
An overview of EBN from the University of Minnesota

Searching the Medical Literature for the Best Evidence
A tutorial from the University of North Carolina Health Sciences Library designed to teach you how to select and search key resources to locate evidence-based information for clinical decision-making.