A “User-Friendly” Framework for Implementing EBP in a Community Hospital Setting

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Thursday, 20 July 2006

This presentation is part of : Initiatives to Create an Evidence-Based Nursing Environment

Gay Landstrom, MS, RN, Patient Care Services, Mercy General Health Partners, Muskegon, MI, USA, Linda M. Thiel, DNSc, RN, McAuley School of Nursing, University of Detroit Mercy, Grand Rapids, MI, USA, Sandra A. Picard, BSN, RN, Nursing, Mercy General Health Partners, Muskegon, MI, USA, and Carol Opalek, MSN, RN, Nursing and Medicine, Mercy General Health Partners, Muskegon, MI, USA.

Learning Objective #1: discuss assessment strategies for readiness to evidence-based practice in a community based hospital setting.
Learning Objective #2: discuss an organizational framework for implementing EBP in a community based hospital.

This presentation will describe an initiative between a University school of nursing and a community hospital with two campuses. The initiative was established with the goal to introduce evidence-based practice (EBP) into the 280 bed hospital setting. Following a comprehensive assessment which measured the hospital’s readiness to EBP, the Iowa Model of EBP to Promote Quality Care (M.Titler) was used to establish a “hospital-specific” organizational framework for implementing EBP nursing. The “hospital-specific” organizational framework and survey is adaptable for use in other healthcare settings. The framework is “user-friendly”, supports an EBP initiative, facilitates exchange among the nursing administrator, researchers, clinicians, and educators, while providing a roadmap implementation of EBP. An overview of the survey findings will be presented

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