Nursing-Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Model

Welcome to this guide to help you use the Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Model.

Bradley University's nursing graduate programs use the Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice (JHEBP) Model.

Use Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses and Health Care Professionals (2022) to guide you in seeking the best evidence, its implementation, and adoption into practice.

An electronic copy of the book can be accessed here.

Sackett et al. (1996) defined evidence-based practice (EBP) as "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of the individual patient" (p. 71). Even though the phrase ‘evidence-based practice’ did not exist when Florence Nightingale wrote Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not, her theory certainly fits the framework of EBP (McMenamin et al., 2019).

McMenamin, A., Sun, C., Prufeta, P., & Raso, R. (2019). The evolution of evidence-based practice.

Nursing Management, 50(9), 14–19. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.NUMA.0000579000.09987.b0

Sackett, D. L., Rosenberg, W. M., Gray, J. A., Haynes, R. B., & Richardson, W. S. (1996). Evidence-based

medicine: What it is and what it isn’t. BMJ : British Medical Journal, 312(7023), 71–72. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.312.7023.71

The JHEBP model emphasizes the PET (Practice, Evidence, and Translation) Process. A copy of the PET Process Guide (Appendix A) is linked below.

Dang, D., Dearholt, S., Bissett, K., Ascenzi, J., & Whalen, M. (2022). Johns Hopkins evidence-based practice for nurses and healthcare professionals: Model and guidelines. 4th ed. Sigma Theta Tau International