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Leading Evidence-based Practice

Use this program stand-alone or as an add-on with our EBP immersion program to go deeper into understanding your organizational culture and how to affect culture change, sustainability and dissemination throughout an organization of any size or focus.

Benefits for completing this program include

  • Learn how a leader creates a vision for a complex organization through the evolution and importance of evidence-based practice.
  • Assess key elements that contribute to the culture of a complex organization including the relationship between culture and the change process.
  • Assess common barriers to implementation of EBP in real world settings and develop strategies to effectively implement EBP.
  • Differentiate, construct and critique the components of an effective PICOT question to support evidence-based practice change.
  • Discover successful strategies for finding the best evidence resources and identify appropriate evidence for different types of questions.
  • Describe the process of critical appraisal and evaluation of evidence.
  • Analyze key checkpoints in planning an EBP change and compose strategies for implementation.
  • Define key elements of the theory of diffusion of innovations.
  • Identify sources for data to measure outcomes and external benchmarks that impact healthcare organizations.
  • Create an outcomes and evaluation plan for a sample EBP project.
  • Differentiate how key attributes of leadership styles can be leveraged to drive EBP.

OUR FACULTY

Our faculty are practicing nurses, administrators, leaders and faculty in healthcare who are conducting research, publishing peer reviewed articles, developing tools and models, contributing to and writing textbooks, and speaking internationally.

Expert EBP faculty may include (upon availability*):

Bernadette Melnyk PhD, APRN-CNP, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN | Evidence-based Practice (CH)

Executive Director and Founder

Lynn Gallagher-Ford PhD, RN, NE-BC, DPFNAP, FAAN | Evidence-based Practice (CH)

Chief Operating Officer and Clinical Core Director

Penelope Gorsuch DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FACHE, USAF Col (ret) | Evidence-based Practice (CH)

Clinical Core Assistant Director
 
Led by the Senior Director of the Fuld Institute for EBP, Lynn Gallagher-Ford, PhD, RN, EBP-C, NE-BC, DPFNAP, FAAN, relevant application of the topics will be integrated thorough insightful interaction with experts and organizations who have made EBP culture change such as:
  • Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, APRN-CNP, EBP-C, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN, Executive Director, Fuld Institute for EBP
  • Kevin Browne, MS, RN, CCRN, Deputy Chief Nursing Officer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • Penelope F. Gorsuch, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, EBP-C, FACHE, USAF Col (ret), Clinical Core Assistant Director, Fuld Institute for EBP
*All speakers subject to availability.

Individual Pricing

$1,000 per participant

  • 2 days of intensive EBP education
  • Opportunities for networking with like-minded individuals
  • Daily light breakfast, lunch and snacks
  • 16.5 contact hours of continuing education for nurses

Group Registration Pricing

Group Pricing Information

  • Group pricing is available for this program
  • Group members will receive all benefits included under individual pricing
  • Each registered member of your group will receive 16.5 contact hours of continuing education for nurses
  • To sign up for group registrations for your organization or for inquiries, contact our program coordinator, Kristen Nelson at nelson.809@osu.edu

Register

Select the program you want to register for below and click the register button. You will be taken to a registration form to complete. Once you click the submit button on the form, you will be taken to a cart checkout to complete registration.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

This program awards 16.5 contact hours of continuing education for nurses

  • The Ohio State University College of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
  • The Nurse Planner and Planning Committee have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
  • There was no commercial support or sponsorship for development of this program.
  • Contact hours are awarded commensurate with participation.

Additional Registration Information

  • Minimum required technology hardware and software
    To participate in this program, you need a computer with a Windows 10/Mac OS Catalina 10.15 operating system, CPU speed: Intel Core i5 Processor, 16GB RAM, Office software (including Word and PowerPoint) and a PDF reader. If you are participating in the virtual program, you will also need a high-speed internet connection with 100 mbps download speed and 100 mbps upload speed, a webcam, a microphone and the Zoom application/add-in. A printer is recommended if you like to read articles as hard copies.
    If you are unsure on how to check for the above requirements on your computer, please feel free to email us at contact-fuld@osu.edu.

  • Minimum required computer skills
    To participate in this program, you need to be comfortable downloading, opening, closing, printing, editing and saving PDF, Word and PowerPoint files. If you are participating in the virtual program, you will also need to be comfortable navigating between multiple websites and/or applications and turning on and off, muting and adjusting audio (microphone) and video (webcam) options during a Zoom meeting.

  • A minimum number of participants are required to hold this event.