We profile @DanielaFilipa89 & her impact story as part of our 25th anniversary celebrations. Read thread below for insights on 'Evidence-based practice capacity building: a Portuguese experience with undergraduate nursing students'.
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Studies have identified education and training as a strategy to promote evidence-based practice (EBP) implementation, and to close the gap between research and practice.
A team at The Portugal Centre for Evidence Based Practice designed & implemented a project to integrate EBP into undergraduate nursing curricula within 9 nursing education institutions.
Using translated & cross-culturally adapted measurement instruments, the team synthesised data on current Portuguese beliefs about EBP and students’ & nursing educators’ levels of implementation knowledge. This evidence was used to develop an educational EBP program.
The program’s effectiveness was evaluated by measuring EBP knowledge & skills in 74 4th-year undergraduate nursing students at the Nursing School of Coimbra at the conclusion of the project.
The implementation of the educational EBP program contributed to the improvement of EBP knowledge and skills of 4th-year undergraduate nursing students, specifically at the level of review question formulation.
Despite the positive results of the project, the designed and tested intervention was limited (17 weeks) and was delivered only to 4th-year undergraduate nursing students, which limits the curricula-wide integration of EBP.
Curricula-wide integration of EBP remains a challenge that needs to be addressed by introducing EBP training earlier in undergraduate education.
It has not yet been possible to integrate EBP into undergraduate curricula, however, the team has designed a postgraduate course in evidence-informed healthcare.
This postgraduate course offered in 2021 aimed to contribute to the training of health professionals so their clinical decision-making is informed by the best scientific evidence.
In 2021, 20 nurses from clinical and academic contexts successfully graduated from the course, in the first steps for curricula-wide integration of EBP and, consequently, for improving the use of EBP in clinical contexts, mainly in the field of nursing.
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