Based Practice

Evidence-based practice has led to improved health care quality and safety; greater patient, family, and staff satisfaction; and reduced costs. Despite these promising outcomes, use of evidence-based practice is inconsistent. The pur-pose of this article is to describe an advanced educational program for nurses in leadership roles responsible for guiding teams and mentoring colleagues through the challenges inherent in the evidence-based practice process. The Advanced Practice Institute: Promoting Adoption of Evidence-Based Prac-tice is an innovative program designed to develop advanced skills essential for completing evidence-based practice projects and building organizational capacity for evidence-based practice programs. Learning is facilitated through group discussion, facilitated work time, networking, and consultation. Con-tent includes finding and synthesizing evidence, learning effective strategies for implementation and evaluation, and discussing techniques for building an EBP program in the nurses ’ organization. Program evaluations are extremely positive, and the long-term impact is described. West J Nurs Res OnlineFirst, published on August 12, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0193945910379218 at PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV on May 13, 2016wjn.sagepub.comDownloaded fro