Transforming Healthcare... from the Inside Out©
The Center for the Advancement of Evidence-Based Practice (CAEP) is an innovative enterprise that fosters EBP for the purpose of improving healthcare through a culture of best practice. The CAEP leadership team is comprised of interdisciplinary experts in EBP who facilitate the integration of internal evidence (i.e., quality & outcome data), external evidence (i.e., research) and practice across multiple settings to improve patient, provider, community, and system outcomes.
Initiatives offered through the CAEP focus on:
- Preparing practitioners for EBP through building knowledge and skills
- Implementing and advancing EBP initiatives
- Facilitating organizational change toward an EBP culture
- Synthesizing and disseminating evidence through scholarly practice
- Shaping health policy through application of sound evidence
Through Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt’s ARCC (Advancing Research through Close Clinical Collaboration) model, the CAEP Group:
- Conducts a yearly national/international EBP conference
- Provides workshops and teaching/mentor institutes on EBP
- Facilitates initiatives that advance evidence-based care and best practices
- Provides consultation and support for generation of internal evidence through the development of outcome projects in areas where more evidence is needed to guide practice
- Conducts patient outcomes evaluations and systems assessments;
- Promotes interdisciplinary collaboration on EBP projects
- Assists clinicians to disseminate evidence through various mechanisms (e.g., publications, syntheses, presentations)
- Assists nurse educators with integration of EBP principles into educational programs
- Conducts research to evaluate the effectiveness of new strategies to advance EBP
In collaboration with the ASU College of Nursing & Health Innovation Office for Research and Scholarship and community partners, the CAEP team facilitates:
- Consultation and support for the development of research projects and grants in areas where more evidence is needed to guide practice
- Interdisciplinary collaboration on research studies
