- June 4 - 5, Columbus, OH
- September 28 - 29, Columbus, OH
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.
Objectives:
- 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.
Program Content
| Day 1 | Day 2 |
|---|---|
| Making the Case for EBP | Findings from Recent Research |
| Spirit of Inquiry and Culture of EBP | Building & Sustaining an EBP Culture & Environment: Critical Expectations for Nurse Leaders |
| Formulating a PICOT Question | Implementation Strategies for Building an EBP Culture and Environment: Success Strategies for Nurse Leaders |
| Searching for Evidence | Implementing and Sustaining Evidence-based Changes |
| Critical Appraisal/ Evaluation/ Synthesis of the Evidence/ Making Recommendations | Moving Forward: Building EBP across Complex Organizations |
| Implementing a Practice Change/ Diffusion of Innovations | |
| Measuring Outcomes and Dissemination | |
| EBP in complex organizations: Immersions, follow ups, and grants |
In addition to the two days of education in Leading EBP, participants will also receive:
16.5 contact hours of continuing education upon completion of the program
Video Testimonial
EBP and the C-Suite
Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, RN, APRN-CNP, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN
Lynn Gallagher-Ford, PhD, RN, NE-BC, DPFNAP, FAAN
Led by the Senior Director of the Fuld Institue for EBP, Lynn Gallagher-Ford, PhD, RN, 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, RN, CPNP/PMHNP, 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
- Jacalyn Buck, PhD, RN, NE-BC, Administrator, Health System Nursing, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
*All speakers subject to availability.
This program will award 16.5 contact hours of continuing education for nurses.
The Ohio State University College of Nursing is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
The Nurse Planner and Planning Committee have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Drs. Lynn Gallagher-Ford and Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk are nationally known experts in EBP and co-authors of Implementing The Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Competencies in Healthcare: A Practical Guide for Improving Quality, Safety, and Outcomes. The content they present will be free from bias.
There was no commercial support or sponsorship for development of this program.
To successfully complete this program and receive contact hours, participants must attend at least 80% of the course. The evaluation and attendance verification must be submitted to receive a certificate. The program will be available until March 2020.
Fantastic info that has definitely given me a path to success at my next assignment and an important tool to have in my toolbox. Great job! - Participant, March, 2018
Great presentation!! I was impressed that whatever was brought to us during the course was exactly what I am going through now in school as I work on my doctoral program. Awesome work! - Participant, March, 2018
This was my first exposure to EBP and it opened my eyes to see my organization in a different and optimistic light. I thoroughly enjoyed the material, the speakers, and the stories. Thank you for taking the time to teach this powerful tool. - Participant, March, 2018