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
   

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

• Poster display details
• EBP poster example
• Research poster example
• Quality Improvement poster example

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

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.