The ASU College of Nursing Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) achievements and plans are featured in an article in the February issue of Nurse Practitioner World News (NPWN).
The article focuses on the success of the Center for Advancement of Evidence-Based Practice’s (CAEP) first EBP Mentoring Workshop held in December 2005. The one-week immersion program attracted more than 40 nurse practitioners, staff nurses, school nurses, chief nursing officers, and nursing faculty from around the nation.
News coverage also included an announcement that the College of Nursing plans to offer the first EBP Graduate Certificate Program (GCP) in the nation starting next August. Participants will receive 17 credits upon completion of the 12-month program. Like the mentorship program, the GCP is targeting nurse practitioners, other advanced practice clinicians, and educators in the U.S. The program is primarily an online learning experience with two visits to the ASU campus at the beginning and end. The first national cohort is limited to 30 nurses with admission to open in April.
NPWN also credited the College of Nursing for spearheading the formation of the Arizona Center for the Advancement of Evidence-Based Practice (AZCAEP), an interdisciplinary group of more than 50 hospitals and healthcare agencies. The mission of AZCAEP is to improve the quality of care throughout Arizona through evidenced-based practice.
ASU College of Nursing Dean Bernadette Melnyk and Ellen Fineout-Overholt, director of the CAEP, were interviewed by NPWN Editor Laurie Lewis for the article.
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