The Educator’s EBP Workshop™
Teaching EBP and Evidence-Based Teaching

Kathleen R. Stevens, RN, EdD, FAAN, Professor & Director, Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Judith A. Halstead, RN, DNS, Professor & Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Indiana University School of Nursing.
In this workshop, participants explore the inevitable impact that EBP has had and will continue to have on preparation of nurses in terms of: (1) nursing education programs (2) roles that nurse educators play, and (3) evidence-based teaching. Pre-Conference Registration Fee: $150; continental breakfast, beverages, and lunch included. Click here for more information.

Essential Elements of EBP: An Introduction to EBP

Presented by Affiliates of the Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice This session equips the EBP novice with basics of EBP and prepares participants for an active role on an EBP team. Pre-Conference Registration Fee: $50; refreshments included.

On-Site Registration, Continental Breakfast

Welcome

Overview of Institute
Kathleen R. Stevens, RN, EdD, FAAN

Keynote: Addressing the Improvement Imperative
Virginia A. Moyer, MD, MPH
Professor, Associate Director, Clinical Associate Center for Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Exhibits and Break

Evidence, Guidelines, and Benchmarks: Is there a Grab-and-Go Utopia?
Kathleen R. Stevens, RN, EdD, FAAN
This session will provide framework and resources for afternoon sessions on priorities in improving care.

Questions and Discussion with Morning Speakers
(Questions gathered on index cards)

Luncheon, Poster viewing, Exhibits

Priorities in Improving Clinical Care: Evidence and Guidelines for Action
(Building on the previous session, these concurrent sessions will equip the participants with the evidence that is available to improve health conditions identified as national priorities)

(a) Safety-Medication
(b) Safety-Falls
(c) Health Literacy/Self Management
(d) Nosocomial Infection
(e) Care Coordination

Break

Priorities in Improving Clinical Care: Evidence and Guidelines for Action
(Repeat of previous concurrent sessions)

EBP Across the Nation: Attended Poster Presentations, Reception, Exhibits

Continental Breakfast, Poster Viewing and Exhibits

Keynote: EBP--What Do We Tell Our Patients? What Will They Tell Us?
Andrew Holtz, MPH, Health Journalist, Chief, HoltzReport.
This unique presentation will connect healthcare providers with the public regarding evidence-based quality improvements.

2005 Institute Awards for Posters

Poster Viewing, Exhibits, & Break

Organizational Culture: EBP Links to Quality
Veronica Nieva, PhD, Vice President, WESTAT, Organizational Management Research Group, Co-Author of the recent AHRQ report, Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture

Questions and Discussions with Speakers
(Questions Gathered on Index Cards)

Infrasturcture for EBP Excellence-Finding What You Have, Building What You Need
Cathy Rick, RN, CNAA, FACHE, Chief Nursing Officer, Office of Nursing Services, Veterans Healthcare Administration

Poster Viewing, Exhibits, and Break

Points of Action and Lessons Learned in the Field
These concurrent sessions will emphazise a variety of field experiences and lessons learned to enable participants in designing their own action plans

(a) Assessing and Addressing Barriers to Guideline Implementation
(b) EBP and Magnet Recognition Criteria
(c) Informatics: High Speed Connection to EBP
(d) Evaluating Impact of EBP Change
(e) Healthcare Consumers as Partners in EBP

Break

Points of Action and Lessons Learned in the Field
(Repeat of Previous Concurrent Sessions)

Networking Groups
Invitational EBP Roundtable

Continental Breakfast

Infusing EBP into My Role
(Concurrent Sessions)

(a) Clinician's Circle: Assessing and Changing Culture: Patient safety
(b) Manager’s Circle: EBP Starts at the Top… and Bottom
(c) Educator’s Circle: Tips for Teaching EBP
(d) Researcher’s Circle: Methods and Issues in the Science of EBP

Break

Developing Clinical Practice Guidelines That Work in Practice
Margaret Hawthorne, Lieutenant Colonel(P), U.S. Army Nurse Corps Chief
Evidence-Based Practice, USAMEDCOM, Quality Management Division and William Hirst, BSN, MPH, Major, USAF, NC, Epidemiologist/Population Health Consultant, Population Health Support Division

Break

Closing Keynote: Quality, Outcomes, & Cost: The Role of Evidence in Our 21st Century Climate
Carolyn Clancy, MD, Director, Agency for Health Care Research and Quality

11:45-12:00