Our programs and services will provide you with the latest science-based strategies to adopt and study an evidence-based approach to your practice. Our team will help you bring it to life at your organization.
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Learn MoreTo our partners and friends in EBP:
You are answering a calling to care in advocating for evidence-based practice, and we want to help you advance that cause. The Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare is undergoing an evolution to ensure that our programming and outreach remains relevant and impactful in building the EBP movement.
To that end, effective December 3, 2024, the EBP Certificate and EBP Certification programs will no longer accept new applications. If you are currently registered and/or have completed the application, you will be able to continue in the programs if you can finish within six (6) months of your registration date. Current EBP Certificate holders and EBP Certification recipients will be recognized for five years from the date awarded. You can contact Dr. Cindy Beckett (beckett.107@osu.edu) with any questions.
We will update you on how the Fuld National Institute for EBP will be able to support and partner with you and your teams in the weeks ahead. We wish you great success in your evidence-based practice journey!
About Fuld National Institute for EBP
Ohio State’s leadership in the evidence-based practice movement began in 2011 with the Center for Transdisciplinary Evidence-based Practice (CTEP), which led efforts to disseminate and teach best practices to healthcare professionals and academics. CTEP set the foundation for impact that expanded in 2016, when College of Nursing Dean Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk secured a $6.5 million gift to create the Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare. The Fuld National Institute for EBP broadened its reach as a national and international advocate and partner for nurturing EBP cultures that pursued the “quintuple aim” of healthcare: improving the patient experience, enhancing population health, reducing costs, addressing healthcare professional burnout and job satisfaction and advancing health equity.
In 2025, the Fuld National Institute for EBP evolved its offerings to meet identified needs of our healthcare partners. This included a renewed focus on evidence-supported approaches to implementation and sustainability of best practices among interdisciplinary healthcare teams. Leveraging key outputs from the field of implementation science, the Fuld Institute remains committed to creating and sustaining healthcare environments that align practices with the best available evidence to improve patient, clinician and health system outcomes.
"The mentors were extremely knowledgeable and knew how to guide us when we were deviating from the objective. Technically, you all were amazing from break out rooms, to screen sharing, and the powerpoint presentation….there was not one glitch that caused any issues. I wish all learning could be facilitated as such. Lastly, as a proud member of COH, I have come away with a wealth of knowledge to support the multidisciplinary teams on campus. "
Peter Z. Hirsch, BSN, RN, CNOR, Endoscopy Nurse Manager and Perioperative Services Clinical Educator , City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA
"Many people assume that PhD prepared clinicians and faculty have a solid understanding of teaching and translating evidence-based practice. The EBP process involves a unique set of skills –it’s not research. I think those teaching EBP would find great benefit from attending the immersion. Attending the immersion and learning this skill set has helped me to effectively translate the research literature into evidence-based practice. The comprehensiveness of this one-week immersion is impressive. Using clear and concise tools and active learning, the Fuld Institute faculty teach every step of the EBP process, ensuring that participants leave with the confidence and skills to move from a searchable question, to searching and synthesizing the literature, to finding the evidence to support (or not), a practice change. When I attended my first CTEP immersion, I left saying “this was the best conference I have ever attended.” I have attended three immersions since, and each time I leave, I still say the same thing. The immersion solidified my role as an evidence based clinician and mentor."
Nancy Powell, PhD, MSN, CNM, RNC-OB, Former Director of Professional Development (retired), AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, Atlantic City, NJ
"I first met Bern Melnyk in 2012 when she came to Central Connecticut State University to do an 8-hour EBP workshop and I became an EBP devotee. I attended my first immersion in May 2017 because I wanted to be part of an effective movement that would advance evidence-based healthcare. As an EBP facilitator, I travel with the Fuld team to spread the EBP word. I am honored to be a part of a team that is changing the way we deliver healthcare in the US and the world."
Kerry Milner, DNSc, RN, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
"Unwavering collaboration, partnership and engagement. Memorial Sloan Kettering and The Fuld National Institute for EBP joined forces and navigated unchartered waters to build an EBP enterprise that is truly exceptional. Two amazing organizations ignited a spirit of inquiry that is palpable in every nurse at every bedside, chair-side and table-side across the care continuum. The momentum is unprecedented and has changed how we define nursing practice."
Kevin P. Browne, DNP, RN, CNS, CCRN, Deputy Chief Nursing Officer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
"Connecting to the Fuld National Institute for EBP has been an opportunity to make a difference in teaching EBP to the next generation of undergraduate and graduate student nurses. As educators, we are challenged in providing meaningful instruction and motivate learners to be evidenced-based practitioners. At immersions, we learn from others in the academic and practice setting what is current practice and learn how others are implementing best practices. The ability to share with others from all over the country is invaluable. Bringing that sense of spirit and collaboration into my classroom is essential in challenging students to apply the EBP process in their own practice. Attending EBP immersions and being a facilitator has increased my knowledge and competencies with the EBP process. It is a privilege to assist others in learning the EBP process and teach the next generation of nurses to be evidence-based practitioners who will provide evidenced-based safe and quality care. "
Kathleen Williamson, PhD, MSN, RN, Associate Dean and Professor, Indiana University School of Nursing - Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN
