Acknowledgments

Foremost, the editors wish to thank colleagues at University of Iowa (UI) Hospitals & Clinics and abroad for their creativity, collaboration, and commitment to patients and evidence-based healthcare.

This work builds upon many years of partnership between visionary legends in nursing at UI Hospitals & Clinics and UI College of Nursing. The very first evidence-based practice (EBP) improvement at UI Hospitals & Clinics was led by Dr. Marita Titler in the mid-1980s. The formal partnership with the UI College of Nursing followed in 1989 under the leadership of Dr. Toni Tripp-Reimer, Dr. Kathleen Buckwalter, and Dr. Geraldine Felton, and Sally Mathis from UI Hospitals & Clinics Department of Nursing. We sincerely appreciate the many nurse leaders who have played key roles in building the culture, assisted our learning, and offered mentoring that made this book possible.

We thank the many point-of-care clinicians who question practice and use EBP to improve outcomes. You are future healthcare leaders and innovators.

Thank you to the many patients and families who allowed us to participate in their care, often when they were most vulnerable.

We are grateful to Kristen Rempel for her steadfast commitment to shepherd this second edition through the many growing pains of development and revision. We are thankful for her excellent editorial management and creative problem-solving.

Special thanks to Kimberly Jordan for her administrative assistance and office management and to Rosanna Seabold for data, graphics, and innovative solutions.

Our appreciation to the Sigma publishing team for their patience and expertise as we navigated through this new edition.

And finally, we could not have completed this work without support from our wonderful families and friends. You keep us balanced, grounded, and grateful.