title: Teaching evidence-based practice: developing a curriculum model to foster evidence-based practice in undergraduate student nurses.
abstract: For the nature of the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) and its relevance to nursing, the skills that it requires should be a component in the basic Nursing degree courses. For this reason, the EBP process should be introduced early on in nursing education to develop students' independence and ability to self-learning.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  the aim of this study is to describe the perception that newly graduated nurses have relative to the benefits of the skills learned during the laboratory's three-year EBP in consideration of the construction of the thesis, the research of evidence and usefulness of the EBP process for the development of their professional career.
  
  
  METHODS
  A descriptive study with a sample of 300 newly graduated nurses from the Degree Course in Nursing of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, venue of Reggio Emilia. The data collection instrument was an anonymous questionnaire. It was possible to answer through a 10 Likert scale.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The sample considers effective the research of evidence carried out (mean 6, SD 2), related to the problems of patients (mean 7, SD 2); the sample considered the skills acquired during the laboratory's three-year EBP to be useful for career development (mean 7, SD 2).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the decision to include the laboratory's three-year EBP in the curriculum of the Nursing degree promotes the development of skills relating to the use of the EBP process, competence that in the literature is indicated as one of the core competencies that all health professionals should develop and maintain throughout their professional career.
authors.affiliation: Degree Course in Nursing of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Seat of Reggio Emilia, Via Amendola 2, Padiglione De Sanctis, 42122 Reggio Emilia, Italy. finotto.stefano@asmn.re.it
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Finotto
authors.forename: Marika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Carpanoni
authors.forename: Elena Casadei
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Turroni
authors.forename: Riccarda
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Camellini
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mecugni
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003479:Curriculum; D055318:Evidence-Based Nursing / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D017145:Models, Educational; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Curriculum; Education; Evidence-based practice; Nursing