National Evidence-Based Practice Conference

Purpose

Nursing care is essential to the well-being of people across the continuum, from health promotion through the highest acuity care and death with dignity. The global nursing shortage is expected to grow. This program is designed to promote nursing provision of evidence-based practice (EBP) and provide solutions to create a work environment addressing organizational systems and cumulative occupational exposure faced by clinicians that promotes their health and preserves the workforce.

Conference participants will learn cutting-edge developments in topics impacting the ability of nurses and interprofessional team members to work in fast paced healthcare settings and address highly complex patient needs that create risk for clinicians, patients, and their families. Participants come from across the U.S. and the world, creating an opportunity to network with EBP experts, faculty, and clinicians motivated to make a difference in health care. The program is designed to meet the needs of practicing nurses, interprofessional team members, leaders, faculty, and experts.

Objectives

• Describe how to create a work environment for health care workers that promotes health, prevents trauma, and retains them across their career
• Provide the evidence-base for occupational exposures health care workers face and solutions that cross patient populations and the continuum of care
• Facilitate networking to advance application of EBP to improve health care outcomes
   

Call for Abstracts             Submit Abstract

Deadline: Sunday, October 20, 2024

Abstracts may be submitted for the following categories

Abstracts of particular interest are related to the conference theme as well as innovative EBP projects, programs, or topics. Priority is given to scholarly EBP work. Category definitions are below.

Evidence-Based Practice: Systematic process of shared decision-making with clinician-led discussion engaging the patient and others significant to them based on the best evidence; the patients' experiences, preferences, and values; clinical expertise; and other available robust sources of best evidence. EBP projects in-progress will be considered for poster display; projects with analysis completed by 12/31/2024 will be considered for oral presentation.

Synthesis Report: Using a variety of systematic methods to review research findings to summarize the extent and quality of research available on a given topic. The format used may vary (e.g., systematic review, meta-analysis, scoping review, integrative review). Synthesis reports in-progress will be considered for poster display; projects with analysis completed by 12/31/2024 will be considered for oral presentation.

Clinical Research: Systematic investigation, including development, testing, and evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge. Clinical research studies in-progress will be considered for poster display; studies with analysis completed by 12/31/2024 will be considered for oral presentation.

Other abstracts of interest may be submitted for these categories

Nurse Residency EBP: Nurses who are currently enrolled or have recently completed a nurse residency program with an EBP project (see EBP definition above). Up to two nurse residency EBP project abstracts, selected by the organization, should be submitted by the nurse residency coordinator. Nurse residency EBP projects will be considered for poster display. Additional nurse residency EBP project abstracts may be submitted in the general EBP category and will undergo competitive review. 

RECENTLY ADDED EBP Final Student Project/Capstone: Nursing students who are currently enrolled or have recently completed a final nursing student-led EBP project for master’s or doctoral degree (see EBP definition above). Up to two EBP final student project abstracts, selected by the organization, should be submitted by the faculty coordinator. EBP final student projects will be considered for poster display. Additional EBP final student project abstracts may be submitted in the general EBP category and will undergo competitive review.

Quality Improvement: Use of data to monitor and improve care processes and use of improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems. EBP work for quality improvement should be submitted as an EBP abstract. EBP work is prioritized and quality improvement projects (e.g., using PDSA) will be considered for poster display only.

Guidelines for Abstract Submission

• Prepare a blinded abstract, with references, using the templates below. A blinded abstract omits all mentions of the organization and/or authors from the title and body of the abstract to ensure a fair and unbiased review.
• Abstract with in-text citations is limited to 500 words, title and headings are not counted.
• Reference list limited to 500 words.
• Select the model used to guide project work for EBP, nurse residency, final student project, and QI reports.
• Nurse Residency EBP abstracts must be submitted by nurse residency coordinator. There is a maximum of two abstracts per organization and each must be submitted individually.
• EBP Final Student Project/Capstone abstracts must be submitted by faculty coordinator. There is a maximum of two abstracts per organization and each must be submitted individually.
• Follow the submission instructions. You will need the blinded abstract, reference list, and contact information for the primary presenter, optional co-presenter, and residency or faculty coordinator if applicable.

Accepted Abstracts

• Abstracts considered for 15-minute oral presentation plus 5-minutes of Q & A: EBP, Clinical Research, and Synthesis Reports with data analysis completed by 12/31/24.
• Abstracts considered for poster display: Incomplete EBP, Clinical Research, and Synthesis Reports; all Nurse Residency EBP, EBP Final Student Project/Capstone, and Quality Improvement.
• Following peer review, acceptance notices with presentation details will be sent in late November. Please note that reviewers may determine that an abstract is of a different category than submitted and that will be communicated in the acceptance notice.
• Two presenters per accepted abstract are eligible for a registration discount. Both presenters must submit registration payment by the date indicated on the acceptance notice. All other costs and arrangements shall be assumed by the presenters.

Abstract Templates

• EBP Abstract Template
• Synthesis Report Abstract Template
• Clinical Research Abstract Template
• QI Abstract Template

Abstract Examples

• EBP Example Abstract
• Clinical Research Example Abstract
   

Registration

Registration will open in January 2025

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Payable to UI Health Care Department of Nursing

Mail to: 
Medical Center at the University Campus
Attn: Rosanna Seabold
Department of Nursing
200 Hawkins Dr, T100 GH
Iowa City, IA 52242

Poster Displays

• EBP poster example
• Research poster example
• Quality Improvement poster example

Oral Presenters

• Oral presentation template (you may use your own organization's branding; include these slides and any others to showcase your project)

Differentiating Between EBP, Research, and Quality Improvement

Contact [email protected] with any questions.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 National EBP Conference Poster and Abstract Awards!

Colleen J. Goode EBP Poster Award Winner
Poster: Peer Audit Checklists to Reduce Falls: A Kamishibai Card Initiative
Kaytlin Atwood, MSN, APRN, AGCNS-BC, MEDSURG-BC & Jamie Priolo, BSN, RN, RN-BC
WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Marita G. Titler Research Poster Award Winner
Poster: Evaluating Evidence-Based Practice Knowledge and Skill Among Nursing Leaders in the Wake of COVID-19
Pamela DeGuzman, PhD, RN; Claiborne Miller-Davis, MSN, RN; Kate Joshua, MLIS; & Kathy Baker, PhD, RN
University of Virginia

Sigma Theta Tau, Gamma Chapter, Nurse Residency EBP Poster Award Winner
Poster: The Pressure is On: A Total Body Pressure Injury Prevention Algorithm in the NICU
Clarissa Cabil, BSN, RN
UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, Ronald Regan NICU

Veterans Administration EBP Outstanding Poster Award Winner
Poster: Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice Recommendations to Reduce Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries
Maureen Falcone, PhD, RN, NPD-BC, EBP-C; April Williams, BSN, RN, MBA-CWCN; & Simone Thomas, DNP, MSN, MSPH, RN, NPD-BC
VA St Louis Health Care Center System

Laura Cullen Outstanding EBP Abstract Award
Abstract: Evidence-Based Strategies to Reduce Postpartum Hypertension and Preeclampsia Readmissions
Beleda Saziru, DNP, RN-MNN, CLEC
Los Angeles Southwest College

Contact [email protected] with any questions.

All travel arrangements including hotel and transportation, must be made by conference participants.

Hotel

A limited block of rooms is reserved at the Hyatt Regency Hotel & Confernce Center. Please make reservations directly with the hotel by March 20, 2025.

Air Travel

• Eastern Iowa Airport (CID) is approximately 20 miles from the conference site.
• Quad Cities International Airport (MLI) is approximately 64 miles from the conference site.

Ground Travel

The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center at 300 East 9th Street, Coralville, Iowa.

Conference materials will be available online prior to the conference. Paper copies of presentations will not be available.

Continuing education credit for the VA program will be granted by the Iowa City VA Medical Center.

Continuing education for the national EBP conference will be granted by University of Iowa Health Care Department of Nursing (Iowa Board of Nursing Approved provider #34). Participants must attend the entire program to receive full credit.

Please contact [email protected] or [email protected] for more information.