Evidence-Based Practice and Innovation as the Foundation for the DNP Curriculum

Thursday, 15 July 2010: 8:50 AM

Kathleen Williamson, PhD, RN
College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation, Center for the Advancement of EBP Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ

  1. Discuss the integration of evidence-based practice across courses in an academic DNP nursing program.
  2. Describe options for how to evaluate graduate students’ integration of EBP into their thinking.
The development of a novel curriculum that integrates concepts and principles of EBP and innovative educational strategies across all courses will be discussed. Evaluative methods to assess graduates students integration of EBP into their thinking will be described.