UNIT I: Background and Context: What is Evidence-Based Practice and Who Cares? Chapter 1: Professional Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice Chapter 2: Elements of Evidence-Based Practice Chapter 3: Global Perspectives and Borderless Knowledge UNIT II: Models for Evidence-Based Practice Chapter 4: Why Bother With Theory? Chapter 5: A Sampler of Conceptual Frameworks and Models Chapter 6: Common Principles UNIT III: How to Do Evidence-Based Practice Chapter 7: Overview of the Evidence-Based Practice Process Chapter 8: Ask and Assess: Questioning Chapter 9: Acquire and Diagnose: Linking the Problem with Finding Best Sources of Evidence Chapter 10: Appraise and Plan I: All Evidence Is Not Created Equal Chapter 11: Appraise and Plan II: Pre-Appraised and Synthetic Sources of Evidence Chapter 12: Apply and Implement I: Decision Making and Integrating Preference and Clinical Expertise Chapter 13: Apply and Implement II: Individual Nurse Implementation Chapter 14: Apply and Implement III: Nursing Systems of Evidence Implementation Chapter 15: Apply and Implement IV: National and International Systems of Evidence Implementation Chapter 16: Assess and Evaluate: Outcome Measurement and Revision of Plan UNIT IV: Putting It All Together Chapter 17: Medical-Surgical Nursing Chapter 18: Evidence Implementation to Provide Safe Nursing Care to Laboring Women Chapter 19: Nursing Care of Children Chapter 20: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Chapter 21: Nursing Care of the Older Adult Chapter 22: Community Health Nursing Glossary.