As VUMC nursing professionals, integrating current evidence into our current practice is not something extra, it is what we do! This page is full of resources to help VUMC nurses formulate EBP questions, search and summarize the literature and plan and carry out EBP activities on your unit or in your facility. Resources are organized using the Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Model.
The EBP process divided into 3 phases and 18 steps.
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Nursing Research office is your biggest resource and we are here to help you successfully navigate your EBP project journey!
Here are some additional resources you will need:
- To complete your Human Subject Protection (IRB) training
- We suggest to use REDCap for storing data or creating a survey. Go here for set up a profile and much more!
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This video shows the process for creating searchable questions using the PICO format, followed by an example of turning the question into a search in the CINAHL database. CINAHL is one of the most common databases for nursing literature; the same process could be applied to any other database.