UNIT I: Background and Context
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