Nursing, BSN and MSN (EBP Toolkit): Clinical Practice Guidelines

Requires free account registration. ECRI Guidelines Trust is a publicly available online repository of objective, evidence-based clinical practice guideline content. Its purpose is to provide physicians, nurses, other clinical specialties, and members of the healthcare community with up-to-date clinical practices to advance safe and effective patient care. This centralized repository includes evidence-based guidance developed by nationally and internationally recognized medical organizations and medical specialty societies.

This repository from the National Association for School Nurses provides guidelines and resources for developing new ones.
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These guidelines, developed by the Center for Disease Control (CDC), are fully accessible and can be downloaded via PDF.

ENA Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) are evidence-based documents that facilitate the application of current evidence into everyday emergency nursing practice. CPGs contain recommendations based on a systematic review and critical analysis of the literature about a clinical question. CPGs are created following the rigorous process described in ENA’s Guidelines for the Development of Clinical Practice Guidelines. The purpose of CPGs is to positively impact patient care in emergency nursing by bridging the gap between practice and currently available evidence.

VHA, in collaborations with the Department of Defense (DoD) and other leading professional organizations, has been developing clinical practice guidelines since the early 1990s. In 2010 the Institute of Medicine identified VA/DoD as leaders in clinical practice guideline development.

The Registered Nurse's Association of Ontario (RNAO) provides this list of best practice guidelines, comprehensive documents providing resources necessary for the support of evidence-based nursing practice. Nurses, other health care professionals and administrators who are leading and facilitating practice changeswill find this document valuable for the development of policies, procedures, protocols, educationalprograms, assessment and documentation tools. It is recommended that this guideline be used as a resourcetool. Nurses providing direct client care will benefit from reviewing the recommendations, the evidence in support of the recommendations, and the process that was used to develop the guidelines.

NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®) are posted with the latest update date and version number.

Issued by third-party organizations, and not the NCCIH, these guidelines define the role of specific diagnostic and treatment modalities in the diagnosis and management of patients. The statements contain recommendations that are based on evidence from a rigorous systematic review and synthesis of the published medical literature.These guidelines are not fixed protocols that must be followed, but are intended for health care professionals and providers to consider. While they identify and describe generally recommended courses of intervention, they are not presented as a substitute for the advice of a physician or other knowledgeable health care professional or provider.

The guidelines and reviews put together by the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses (AANN) provide an overview of evidence based practices for nursing management of specific patient populations with neurological injuries. CPGs are available for free to the general public. Please click the "download" button to view the documents.

This Research Guide from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) includes a selection of open access materials on evaluation of use of guidelines from a variety of authors, organizations, and settings.