Columbia University's competency and evidence-based Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program

New clinical information is being generated faster than practicing clinicians can effectively assimilate it. Since the gold standard of clinical information is evidence-based information, tools and techniques that facilitate both the building of evidence for practice and the application of evidence...

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Published in:Nursing outlook 2002-11, Vol.50 (6), p.232-237
Main Authors: Curran, Christine R., Roberts, W.Dan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acute Care
Columbia University NY
Competence
Curriculum
Education, Nursing
Evaluation Criteria
Evidence Based Practice
Evidence-Based Medicine
Higher Education
Humans
New York
Nurse Practitioners
Nursing
Nursing Education
Schools, Nursing
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Summary:New clinical information is being generated faster than practicing clinicians can effectively assimilate it. Since the gold standard of clinical information is evidence-based information, tools and techniques that facilitate both the building of evidence for practice and the application of evidence to practice are essential for practicing clinicians. As such, the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) program at Columbia University's School of Nursing was reconfigured to incorporate both theoretically based competency evaluation standards and strategies to foster an evidence-based practice approach to clinical care. The purpose of this article is to describe a curriculum and set of learning activities used to foster both development of clinical competency and evidence-based practice in students in the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program. Nurs Outlook 2002;50:232-237.
ISSN:0029-6554
1528-3968
DOI:10.1067/mno.2002.128884