Implementation of The Essential Competencies for Evidence-Based Practice in Baccalaureate Nursing Education

• Main Author: Whorley, Elizabeth
• Format: Others
• Published: NSUWorks 2018
• Subjects: Health and environmental sciences; Education; Baccalaureate pre-licensure nursing programs; Evidence-based practice competencies; Nursing
• Online Access: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hpd_con_stuetd/46; https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1049&context=hpd_con_stuetd

Integrating evidence-based practice into healthcare education has been a recommendation for the past 16 years. Despite this, barriers still exist with the utilization of evidence-based practice. The purpose of this study was to describe the current state of EBP scholarship in the curriculum of baccalaureate pre-licensure nursing programs. Essential Competencies for Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing (Stevens, 2009) was utilized to measure the state of EBP scholarship. The research question stated: how is evidence-based practice scholarship addressed within baccalaureate pre-licensure nursing programs? The research design was guided by Rogers’ diffusion of innovations theoretical framework and the star model of knowledge transformation ©. The study was a non-experimental descriptive design, and a convenience sample of n=96 surveys from program leaders was evaluated. The findings from this study fill an identified gap in nursing literature and show that EBP is addressed within baccalaureate pre-licensure nursing programs, described by the leaders in the programs. Keywords: evidence-based practice competencies, baccalaureate pre-licensure nursing programs