Wednesday, July 9, 2003: 1:00 PM-2:30 PM | |||
How to Teach Evidence-Based Practice: That is the Question! | |||
| Learning Objective #1: Describe two teaching strategies that will facilitate the learning of evidence-based practice | |||
| Learning Objective #2: Describe two approaches to implementing evidence-based practice in the clinical setting | |||
| The theme of this symposium is how to facilitate the learning and implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP). Its purpose is to provide conference participants with unique and successful strategies for teaching EBP to students and for facilitating the understanding and implementation of an EBP approach among clinicians in the practice setting. The symposium will consist of a short introduction to EBP, which includes our definition of it and our rational for using it, followed by five separate presentations, each focusing on a different aspect of the theme as follows: Presenter 1 will provide 2 unique exercises to use with undergraduate or graduate students for teaching EBP from a quantitative perspective. One of these deals with how to decide if different studies belong in the same research base. The second is how to evaluate the validity of protocols using EBP rating systems. Presenter 2 will focus on how to synthesize qualitative studies for clinical decision-making. Presenter 3 will discuss the use and evaluation of journal clubs as an initiation strategy to EBP for health care providers. Presenter 4 will share the use of the "traveling poster" as a way to facilitate staff nurses involvement in EBP. And finally, Presenter 5 will share the issues involved in revising a graduate level research course using an EBP framework. A conclusion will summarize the major points in the above presentations and encourage session participants to dialogue with presenters during the remainder of the conference. A packet of handouts, which contains copies of slides for each presentation and a description of each strategy, will be provided for participants. | |||
| Organizer: | Rona Faye Levin, PhD, RN, Visiting Professor/Visiting Scholar | ||
| Getting the Evidence into the Practitioner's Hands: Making the Most of a Journal Club Ellen Fineout-Overholt, PhD, RN, Associate Director, Center for Research & Evidence-based Practice | |||
| Strategies for Teaching Evidence-Based Practice: A Qualitative Perspective Teresa L. Panniers, PhD, RN, CRNP, Associate Professor | |||
| Strategies for Teaching Evidence-Based Practice: A Quantitative Perspective Rona Faye Levin, PhD, RN, Visiting Professor/Visiting Scholar | |||
| Traveling Posters: Communicating at the "Coal-Face" Priscilla Sandford Worral, PhD, RN, Coordinator for Nursing Research | |||
| Where is the Evidence?: Redesigning a Graduate Research Course Patricia A. Edwards, EdD, RN, CNAA, Graduate Nursing Faculty | |||
International Evidence-Based Practice Preconference
Sigma Theta Tau International
9 July 2003