title: Bridging the theory-practice gap: a practice-relevant research course for RN to BSN students.
abstract: Wanting to create passion for research and evidence-based practice (EBP), the authors describe how a nursing instructor and the director for research and EBP in a community hospital partnered together to teach a practice-relevant research course for RN to BSN students. Students participated in the steps of the EBP process and presented formal reports in class of their EBP project results. One student described her research experience as awesome-evidence that this course bridged the theory-practice gap.
authors.affiliation: Catawba Valley Medical Center, Hickory, North Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: Rebecca Creech
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Tart
authors.forename: Donald D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Kautz
authors.forename: Kimberly D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Rudisill
authors.forename: Edward L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Beard
mesh_terms: D015400:Clinical Nursing Research / Q000193:education*; D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration; D055318:Evidence-Based Nursing / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D009742:Nursing Theory