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Designed as both a text for the DNP curriculum and a practical resource for seasoned health professionals, this acclaimed book demonstrates the importance of using an interprofessional approach to translating evidence into nursing and healthcare practice in both clinical and nonclinical environments. This third edition reflects the continuing evolution of translation frameworks by expanding the Methods and Process for Translation section and providing updated exemplars illustrating actual translation work in population health, specialty practice, and the healthcare delivery system. It incorporates important new information about legal and ethical issues, the institutional review process for quality improvement and research, and teamwork and building teams for translation. In addition, an unfolding case study on translation is threaded throughout the text.

Reorganized for greater ease of use, the third edition continues to deliver applicable theory and practical strategies to lead translation efforts and meet DNP core competency requirements. It features a variety of relevant change-management theories and presents strategies for improving healthcare outcomes and quality and safety. It also addresses the use of evidence to improve nursing education, discusses how to reduce the divide between researchers and policy makers, and describes the interprofessional collaboration imperative for our complex healthcare environment. Consistently woven throughout are themes of integration and application of knowledge into practice.

NEW TO THE THIRD EDITION:
• Expands the Methods and Process for Translation section
• Provides updated exemplars illustrating translation work in population health, specialty practice, and the healthcare delivery system
• Offers a new, more user-friendly format
• Includes an entire new section, Enablers of Translation
• Delivers expanded information on legal and ethical issues
• Presents new chapter, Ethical Responsibilities of Translation of Evidence and Evaluation of Outcomes
• Weaves an unfolding case study on translation throughout the text

KEY FEATURES:
• Delivers applicable theories and strategies that meet DNP core requirements
• Presents a variety of relevant change-management theories
• Offers strategies for improving outcomes and quality and safety
• Addresses the use of evidence to improve nursing education
• Discusses how to reduce the divide between researchers and policy makers
• Supplies extensive lists of references, web links, and other resources to enhance learning
• Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers

is associate professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. She holds a joint faculty appointment in the Hopkins Carey School of Business, is director of the School of Nursing's Master's Entry Into Practice Program, and is the track coordinator of the master of science in nursing (MSN) health systems management and of the MSN-MBA (master of business administration) tracks. Dr. White also holds a joint appointment as a clinical nurse specialist (CSN) at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she was a member of a collaborative team that developed the widely published, award-winning Johns Hopkins Nursing evidence-based practice model and guidelines. Dr. White was a senior advisor at the Health Resources and Services Administration from 2010 to 2013 where she worked in the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis and the Office of Performance Management. Her numerous practice policy and leadership roles have included serving as the chairperson of the American Nursing Association Congress on Nursing Practice and Economics from 2006 to 2010 and as a member of the Maryland Governor's Health Quality and Cost Council, the Maryland Health Care Commission's Hospital Performance Evaluation Guide Advisory Committee, the Howard County General Hospital Board of Trustees, and the Maryland Patient Safety Center's board of directors, where she served as their inaugural chairperson until 2011.

is assistant professor, Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Nursing, where she is also codirector of the Nurse Practitioner Fellowship Program in Gastroenterology and Hepatology; she works with patients as well as conducts research on patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Dr. Dudley-Brown has held several academic appointments, both nationally and internationally, and has worked as a nurse practitioner at several institutions over the past 25 years. She has published numerous peer-reviewed papers and abstracts in the fields of nursing, inflammatory bowel disease, and ulcerative colitis, and is currently a member of several editorial boards, including the

, where she is the online editor. She is an active member of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) and serves on the National Nursing Initiatives Committee as well as on her local medical advisory committee.