SYMPOSIUM
Wednesday, July 13, 2005: 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Pride and Prejudice: Integrating EBP Into a Graduate Curriculum
Learning Objective #1: Discuss challenges faced and strategies used in working with faculty to accept curriculum revisions based on an EBP framework
Learning Objective #2: Describe specific curriculum revisions for integrating EBP into core and clinical components of a master's program
This symposium will focus on how the presenters, working together in a school of nursing, integrated evidence-based practice into a master's in nursing program. The first paper will address the challenges we faced, particularly the lack of knowledge about and concerns expressed by faculty, in promoting EBP revisions to the graduate curriculum and the strategies we used to deal with these challenges. The next two papers will share the specific curriculum revisions, which are now in place: a)revision of the graduate research course content and assignments; and b)revision of the clinical component of the Family Nurse Practitioner program using an EBP framework.
Organizer:Rona Faye Levin, PhD, RN
Presenters:Lillie M. Shortridge-Baggett, RN, EdD, FAAN, FNAP
Rona Faye Levin, PhD, RN
Joanne K. Singleton, PhD, RN, CS, FNP, FNAP
 Integrating EBP into a Graduate Nursing Curriculum: Challenges and Strategies
Lillie M. Shortridge-Baggett, RN, EdD, FAAN, FNAP
 Evidence Users vs. Evidence Generators: Revising a Graduate Research Course from an EBP Perspective
Rona Faye Levin, PhD, RN
 Incorporating Evidence-Based Practice into Clinical Teaching at the Graduate Level: A Work in Progress
Joanne K. Singleton, PhD, RN, CS, FNP

Third International Evidence-Based Nursing Preconference
Promoting Evidence-Based Nursing: Innovation for Nursing Practice
Sigma Theta Tau International
13 July 2005
Hawaii’s Big Island