The Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare was named after the institute that awarded the grant. The institute will launch this fall at Ohio State University (OSU) as a national nursing institute for teaching and tracking the best ways to improve healthcare and patient outcomes.

Ohio State believes that this hugely impactful grant will enable the university to accelerate current efforts with nursing colleges and healthcare systems nationwide, in teaching, implementing, and sustaining evidence-based practice (EBP). EBP is a problem-solving approach to how to best deliver healthcare and it integrates evidence from studies with clinicians and patients to find out healthcare preferences and values from both. With multiple studies proving that EBP improves healthcare quality and patient outcomes while reducing costs, Ohio State sees it as an essential and worthwhile endeavor for the College of Nursing and its forthcoming nursing institute.

The new institute is intended to expand on current efforts in the College of Nursing where their Center for Transdisciplinary Evidence-Based Practice is already in place. Ohio State’s grant will go toward integrating EBP in nursing faculty curriculums nationwide; teaching nursing students and nurses how to implement and sustain EBP; and assisting nursing leaders, hospitals, and healthcare systems in advancing their EBP care to improve safety and quality of care for patients and their families.

In order to implement EBP on a nationwide scale, the National Institute for Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare at OSU will conduct research on the most effect interventions for teaching EBP in clinical settings, provide a web site of best practices and resources to enhance healthcare quality, and coordinate national webinars and conferences discussing the best and latest evidence for buiding best nursing practices.

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