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Evidence-based expert: Encourage nurses to learn through research

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, January 23, 2009

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This week's experts, Suzanne C. Beyea, RN, PhD, FAAN, and Mary Jo Slattery, RN, MS, explain how educators can ensure they have support for evidence-based practice programs from hospital leadership.

Q. We've formed an evidence-based practice council at our organization. What should be discussed at its first meeting?

A. Once you create your council, determine a data, time, and comfortable location for its first meeting, send out invitations that include an agenda and that encourage participants to come with ideas.

The agenda for the research or evidence-based practice council's first meeting could include some of the following topics:

  • Welcome and introduce participants
  • Discuss results of the nursing research survey (if already conducted)
  • Vote on co-chairs of the council and define their responsibilities
  • Discuss current evidence-based initiatives
  • Discuss models for evidence-based practice, and determine which one is the best fit for the organization
  • Discuss the council's purpose
  • Discuss the council's role in reviewing and critiquing nursing research proposals
  • Develop a nurse research policy
  • Open discussion of other topics
  • Set date/time of meetings for the year (initially schedule monthly)

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