title: Simply the best: teaching gerontological nursing students to teach evidence-based practice. Creating tip sheets can help achieve the goal of implementing EBP in clinical facilities.
abstract: This article describes a teaching strategy used in an undergraduate gerontological nursing clinical course to familiarize students with evidence-based practice. Students are required to read and summarize an assigned evidence-based practice guideline published by The University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center. They then develop a "tip sheet," based on the assigned guideline, to disseminate to health care staff at their practicum sites, which is either a long-term care facility or a hospital-based skilled nursing facility. Nursing students' reactions to the assignment and nursing staff's responses to the tip sheets are discussed.
authors: The University of Iowa, College of Nursing, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA. deborah-schoenfelder@uiowa.edu
authors: Deborah Perry
authors: DP
authors: Schoenfelder
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001296:Audiovisual Aids; D019985:Benchmarking; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000193:education*; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D007484:Iowa; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000193:education*; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D013663:Teaching / Q000458:organization & administration; D013664:Teaching Materials