• All qualifying education must be completed before registration*. After education requirements have been approved, you can complete the program process in 3-6 months, with extensions as needed. This allows for the submission of coursework, up to three attempts on the knowledge test, and one resubmission of portfolio items. You still must meet all required response times on components to maintain progress through the program.
• The entire process could take you about a month from registration through completion if you have valid coursework, register for, take, and pass the knowledge test as soon as possible, and submit all elements of the portfolio as soon as possible. However, 3 months is a reasonable and expected time frame for completion of all elements.
• You may have up to 6 months to complete all elements if needed. Again, you still must meet all required response times on components to maintain progress through the program. Candidates who have not completed all elements of the process in 6 months after paying the initial registration fee will need to submit a new application and payment of fees to restart the process.

You will need to provide:

• Portfolio of a prospective evidence-based practice change project/initiative, an evidence-based quality improvement project/initiative, or a retrospective project/initiative completed in the past two years, including all the steps of the EBP process:
• Cultivating a spirit of inquiry and EBP culture/Identifying a clinical practice change.
• Creating a PICO(T) question/clinical question that guides the practice change project.
• Searching for the evidence.
• Appraisal, evaluation, and synthesis of the evidence.
• Integrating evidence into decision-making for the EBP change.
• Creating an implementation and evaluation plan for the EBP change.
• Creating a dissemination and sustainability plan for EBP change.

We recommend that you wait 90 days after you complete EBP education, so you can have enough work completed on your project or proposal for a change initiative.

• Subject matter experts (SMEs) use the information from the Role Delineation/Job Analysis Study and the EBP Competencies to develop test items for the EBP Knowledge Test.
• All application activities are maintained in a secure database. Only the EBP Credentialing Programs Director and staff have access to the data on the application site.
• The EBP Knowledge Tests are administered via a remote testing vendor, Proctorio. This allows the candidate to take the test at a time and date that is most convenient for them. It is a secure platform that is monitored by the Director of the EBP Credentialing Programs.
• Candidates will receive email communications from the EBP Credentialing Programs Director after each component is completed to notify them of the next steps.
• Upon completion, candidates will receive an official email notification. In this communication, the candidate will be asked if the candidate provides permission for their name to be posted on the EBP Certificate/Certification Recipient list on the Fuld National Institute for EBP website.
• No individual information will be released about the candidate without their written permission.
• A Role Delineation/Job Analysis Study is conducted every 3 years to validate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes/beliefs needed for the EBP Mentor Role (EBP Certification (EBP-C) only).