title: Teaching evidence-based practice skills in a hospital.
abstract: Nurses and allied health professionals have the unique opportunity to become empowered through evidence-based practice (EBP) to make significant differences in the lives of patients and their families. Best practices in patient care occur only when staff continually ask questions about treatments and care, search for and evaluate the evidence to support or refute traditional practices, implement best evidence, and evaluate the effectiveness of the evidence as it applies to nursing care. This article presents the establishment of a formal program to teach EBP skills to pediatric nurses and other health care providers at a major children's hospital.
authors.affiliation: Center for Research and Evidence-Based Practice, Texas Children's Hospital, 6621 Fannin, Room A. 677N, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
authors.forename: Marilyn
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hockenberry
authors.forename: Terri
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Marlene
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Walden
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Barrera
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D016730:Program Development; D013781:Texas