Methods: The Helene Fuld Institute for evidence-based practice in nursing and healthcare (formerly the Center for Transdisciplinary Evidence-based Practice) is an organization whose vision is to be the leader in driving evidence-based decision making to transform health and improve lives throughout the world. Its mission is to dream, discover and deliver a healthier world through transdisciplinary education, research, and policy focused on evidence-based decision making. vision is to be the leader in driving evidence-based decision making to transform health and improve lives throughout the world. Its mission is to dream, discover and deliver a healthier world through transdisciplinary education, research, and policy focused on evidence-based decision making. Within the Institute, the Clinical Core team works with organizations of all shapes and sizes and levels of complexity across the globe to facilitate and support transformational work to build and sustain evidence-based enterprises.
This work, across a wide variety of organizations, provides a unique opportunity to assist in developing effective systems, infrastructures, and cultures in different places continuously. As the team works alongside clinicians and leaders at each organization, they gather rich data and gain valuable expertise from every experience which informs the body of knowledge about building and sustaining EBP enterprises.
Results: The Helene Fuld Institute for evidence-based practice in nursing and healthcare (formerly the Center for Transdisciplinary Evidence-based Practice) has conducted several research studies and gained tremendous expertise through working with healthcare organizations across the globe. The results of this work are rolled forward into future consultations and collaborations. The findings from the research conducted reveal that the following are effective and necessary for building and sustaining best practice EBP programs and organizations:
- the development of valid and reliable EBP models, tools, and resources
- the implementation of valid and reliable EBP models, tools, and resources
- engaged leadership
- expert collaboration
Research results and lived experiences of multiple organizational EBP transformations will be shared along with the unique, progressive “snowballing effect” that has occurred through The Fuld Institutes’ collaboration as a central hub for EBP will be discussed as well.
Conclusions: Transformation to an EBP enterprise is possible and sustainable with the right combination evidence, experience, leadership, collaboration, intention and persistence. The formulas for success are being written and executed in our times. The opportunity to collaborate and learn from each others experiences, successes, and failures is an effective strategy to move organizations efficiently along their trajectories to becoming evidence-based enterprises; consistently delivering best practice, meeting the quadruple aim in healthcare and, ultimately, achieving improved population health outcomes for the people across the U.S. and the globe.