U-M School of Nursing faculty members contribute to award-winning book on evidence-based practice

A new book co-authored by Rhetaugh G. Dumas Endowed Professor Marita Titler, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, has received third place in the American Journal of Nursing’s 2019 Book of the Year Awards in the Advanced Practice category. The book’s contributing authors include U-M School of Nursing Clinical Assistant Professor Barbara Medvec, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, Clinical Associate Professor Christine Anderson, Ph.D., RN, and Michigan Medicine’s Director of Nursing Research, Quality and Innovation Leah Shever-Doletzky, Ph.D., RN.

“Evidence-based Practice for Nursing and Healthcare Quality,” published by Elsevier, provides a straightforward but comprehensive guide to planning, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based practice and quality improvement projects to enhance quality of care and health outcomes. The book is applicable across multiple advanced practice specialties and works through the processes of developing and exploring practice issues, synthesis and implementation of evidence to improve health care, and disseminating results to key stakeholders.

“This is why we wrote this book — to guide those in advanced practice to undertake and lead evidence-based practice in a way that makes a difference for patients and population health,” said Titler, who also served as one of the book’s editors. “Being in the advanced practice category means that we had a high impact in a very competitive area and hit our mark.”

Since 1969, the American Journal of Nursing has published an annual list of the best in nursing publishing.  The AJN Book of the Year program is a prestigious competition that garners the attention of nurses in clinical settings, faculty, researchers, librarians and more. The winners are chosen by a panel of judges who range from college professors to clinicians to nursing executives. Awards are given for first, second and third place in 20 categories.

View the full list of AJN’s 2019 Book of the Year Award winners, published in the journal’s January 2020 issue.