National Evidence-Based Practice Conference
Mind the Gap – Addressing Occupational Exposures with Evidence Based Action for Nursing Workforce Preservation
32nd National Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Conference
Wednesday, April 16- Thursday, April 17, 2025
Hyatt Regency | Coralville, Iowa
Keynote Speakers
Purpose
Nurses must find new ways to promote evidence-based care across the care continuum, while facing the global nursing shortage. 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
The Call for Abstracts for the April 2026 National EBP Conference will open in Fall 2025.
Registration
Registration will open in January 2025
Pay by Credit Card
$200 oral or poster presenter (maximum of 2 presenters per presentation; paid on or before 3/1/2025)
$230 conference participant (paid on or before 3/1/2025)
$275 conference participant or presenter (paid after 3/1/2025)
$125 University of Iowa student or employee (not presenting)
Make Payment(select Events and Programs, then EBP Conference, then the correct fee to complete your purchase)
Pay by Check
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
Oral Presenters
- Oral presentation details
- 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
Pay(Select Events and Programs then EBP Conference then select exhibitor or sponsor level.)
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.
Participant Reflections on the National EBP Conference:
Future Conference Dates
Wednesday, April 22 - Thursday, April 23, 2026