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About the Contributing Authors ix

Chapter 3: The Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Model and

Process Overview

Sandra L. Dearholt, MS, RN, NEA-BC

See Sandra L. Dearholt’s bio earlier.

Sharon H. Allan, DNP, RN, ACNS-BC, CCRC

Sharon Allan is a clinical nurse specialist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. She

is chair of Nursing Standards of Care Committee, overseeing evidence-based

policy and protocol development and review. She has published, presented,

and consulted nationally on clinical research studies, quality improvement,

and evidence-based practice projects. Her funded studies focused on heart/lung

transplant, best practices in a cardiac surgery ICU, and clinical alarm manage-

ment. Allan is a member of NACNS, STTI, AACN, AAMI, and the ANA.

Chapter 4: The Practice Question

Robin P. Newhouse, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN

Robin Newhouse is distinguished professor and dean of the Indiana Univer-

sity School of Nursing. Her research focuses on health system interventions to

improve care processes and patient outcomes. She has published extensively

on health services improvement interventions, acute care quality issues, and

evidence-based practice. Newhouse co-authored the first edition of the Johns

Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice: Model and Guidelines. Newhouse

is a member of the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Research Coun-

cil, past chair of the Research and Scholarship Advisory Council for Sigma

Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, and serves on the Academy

Health Board and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute Method-

ology Committee. She was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International

Honor Society of Nursing Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame and received the

American Nurses Credentialing Center President’s Award in 2015.