Health Sciences Library Services: Your Link to Quality Information!

Resources for Evidence-Based Nursing

Practice Guidelines

• AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) Evidence-based Practice
• The Joanna Briggs Institute (Australia-based, world-wide practice)
• Nursing Best Practice Guidelines (Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, RNAO)

Nursing Organizations

Some Nursing Organizations have free guidelines available online, others offer items for purchase. Membership may provide access to additional information.
• AWHONN (Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses)
• Infusion Nurses Society
• National Association of Neonatal Nurses
• Oncology Nursing Society
• Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing

General EBM Recommendations and Guidelines

• Cochrane Collaboration ; The full-text Cochrane Database is available in the AHEC Digital Library
• National Guideline Clearinghouse
• Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network

Some of these resources require payment, others provide articles free online.

• Bandolier (An independent journal, Oxford)
• Evidence-Based Nursing (BMJ Publishing Group)
• Excellence in Nursing Knowledge (Sigma Theta Tau International)
• Online Journal of Clinical Innovations (Cinahl Information Systems)
• Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing (Blackwell Publishing)

Overviews & Tutorials

• Evidence Based Nursing Tutorial, University of North Carolina
• Evidence Based Nursing, University of Minnesota
• Evidence Based Nursing, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Toronto
• Research Resources for Evidence Based Nursing (EBN), McGill University Health Centre, Montreal