Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice

Upstate's companion guide for Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice.

What is the Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Toolkit?

Upstate Nursing adopted the Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice (JHNEBP) Model in 2017. The JHNEBP Model Toolkit below has user-friendly tools to guide individual or group use.

This toolkit is used with permission from the Johns Hopkins Nursing Center for Evidenced-Based Practice.

Links to the 2025 edition

Upstate employees and students can access EBP tools at the following link. Off-campus users will be prompted to sign in.

Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Tools - 5th edition

Anyone else interested should go directly to Johns Hopkins EBP model and tools informational page.

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Bissett, K., Ascenzi. J., & Whalen, M. (2025). Johns Hopkins evidence-based practice for nurses and healthcare professionals: Model and guidelines. 5th ed. Sigma Theta Tau International

Links to the 2022 Edition

Upstate employees and students can access the following links. Anyone else interested in the Appendices should go directly to Johns Hopkins' website on EBP tools.

Appendix A - PET Management Guide
The PET Management Guide walks you through the three steps of the EBP process: practice question, evidence, and translation.
Appendix B: Question Development Tool
The Question Development Tool is used to develop an answerable EBP question and to guide the team in the evidence search process.
Appendix C: Stakeholder Analysis Tool
The Stakeholder Analysis Tool is used to identify key stakeholders. Key stakeholders are persons, groups, or departments in the organization that have an interest in or concern about your project.
Appendix D: Evidence Level and Quality Guide
The Evidence Level and Guide outlines three levels of evidence with quality ratings and describes each in a rubric.
Appendix E - Research Evidence Appraisal Tool
The Research Evidence Appraisal Tool helps you decide if the evidence is quantitative or qualitative, and how to use that evidence to support your topic.
Appendix F: Non-Research Appraisal Tool
Sometimes you'll find literature that is not primary research. Appendix F walks you through the steps of grading non-research evidence with the Non-Research Evidence Appraisal Tool.
Appendix G: Individual Evidence Summary Tool
You've read the research and appraised the evidence. Now it's time to put it all together with the Individual Evidence Summary Tool.
Appendix H: Synthesis Process and Recommendations Tool
The Synthesis Process and Recommendations Tool helps you make sense of the strength of the evidence toward a particular recommendation.
Appendix I: Action Planning Tool
The Action Planning Tool ensures that you have a team in place to help you champion and implement change.
Appendix J: Dissemination Tool
The Dissemination Tool guides you through ways you can disseminate your findings at conferences, in publications, in social media, and more.

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.