Resources
The Johns Hopkins Nursing Center for Evidence-Based Practice Course Catalog offers JHNEBP trainings virtually and in-person throughout the year.
Are you a nurse working at a Hopkins site? The JHNEBP tools are linked on your intranet.
Are you a nurse working elsewhere? See a sample of tools here, and complete the copyright permission form
Do you need some tips on searching? View our Welch Library Expert Searching Guide
Do you need some tips on evidence syntheses? View our DNP Searching for Evidence Step by Step Guide
If your question doesn't fit into the PICO framework, review our Formulating Your Research Question page on our Expert Searching Guide.
When setting out to do an EBP project, you'll need to have a well-developed research question. The JHNEBP Model's Appendix A - PET Process Guide, supplies you with a checklist to ensure that you have thought through all the steps and have a winning team in place prior to the start. PET stands for Practice Question, Evidence, Translation.
When framing the EBP question, consider ideas such as:
Is your question a background question or a foreground question?
Background Questions - These are usually broad and used in the beginning. Background questions can be refined and adjusted as continue to develop the search. Background questions frequently assist in identifying best practices.
Foreground Questions - These types of questions are focused, with specific comparisons of ideas or interventions. Foreground questions can provide specific evidence related to the research question. Background questions can turn into foreground questions as the review progresses.
This process can be identified in the JHNEBP Model, Appendix B - Question Development Tool PICO. After you've completed Appendix A and Appendix B, complete Appendix C - Stakeholder Analysis and Communication Tool. This form is used to identify key stakeholders that can support decision-making, serve as subject matter experts, or implement change.
Reference: Dang, D., Dearholt, S.L., Bissett, K., Ascenzi, J., & Whalen, M. (2021). Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice: Model and Guidelines. Sigma Theta Tau.
CINAHL® Plus with Full Text provides indexing for more than 5,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 4 million records dating back to 1937. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL® Plus with Full Text covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters.
Tip: Copy and paste the following into your search to limit to nursing specific literature:
AND ((MH "Nurses+") OR XB (nurse OR nurses OR nursing))
PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally. It contains more than 38 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature.
Tip: Copy and paste the following into your search to limit to nursing specific literature:
AND ("Nurses"[Mesh] OR "Nursing"[Mesh] OR "nurse"[tiab] OR "nurses"[tiab] OR "nursing"[tiab])
JBI is an independent research and development non-profit leading evidence-based practice (EBP) organizations.It's primary focus is nursing research and evidence.
Use Embase for broader searches with a world wide focus. Embase is also a great resource for conference abstracts, drug information, and device indexing.
Tip: Copy and paste the following into your search to limit to nursing specific literature:
'nurse'/exp OR 'nursing'/exp OR 'nurse':ti,ab,kw OR 'nurses':ti,ab,kw OR 'nursing':ti,ab,kw
The following are a few different places to find nursing journals
Nursing journals at JHU that we individually subscribe to. If a journal is not on this list, it does not necessarily indicate we do not have access. If you have questions about accessing a journal, please contact your informationist.
The list is in alphabetical order, but you can resort by Journal Impact Factor, CiteScore, or SCImago.
Nursing journals within the NLM catalog. You can further narrow the list to journals indexed in Medline, by language, etc.