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"Evidence-based Practice (EBP) is a problem-solving approach to clinical decision making in healthcare that integrates the best available scientific evidence with clinical experience and patient’s preferences and values. The healthcare systems are constantly evolving and becoming more complex. That requires more competent professionals, equipped with knowledge and skills that let them choose the better option for the patient. For this reason, the European Federation of Nurses Associations developed a Competency Framework (CF) based in the European Directive 2013/55/EU, that establishes the minimum educational requirements for nurses responsible of general care. This CF includes as a core competence ""to implement scientific findings for Evidence-based Practice"" (2015). Moreover, the importance of education in EBP is recognised by WHO in his technical guide for Member States: European strategic directions for strengthening nursing and midwifery towards Health 2020 goals (WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2015).Nevertheless, the incorporation of EBP into clinical nursing is slow and remains a challenge to the nursing profession. To deal with these changes it is crucial that future nurses and nurse educators (academic and clinical mentor) develop new competences on EBP, learning specific knowledge and skills in this area. However, limited resources are available to support EBP in European Nursing curricula; nurses’ educators and mentors are poorly prepared to teach students the connections between evidence-based practice, decision making, and health outcomes. There is no European framework for EBP competency, and no guidelines for EBP pedagogies.Therefore, the general objective of the project was to foster and harmonize the teaching and learning of EBP in the European Nursing curricula and to produce the acquisition of EBP competence earlier in professional life that can be continued for lifelong self-directed learning also among nurse educators and clinical mentors. Specific objectives of the project were to analyse the current situation of EBP in European Nursing Curricula, to agree on a European EBP Competency Framework and to develop Guidelines on the recommendations for teaching and learning EBP to Nursing European Curriculum. Following the recommendations of this preliminary work we developed a modular online self-learning course on EBP called “EBP e-Toolkit” including a reusable Open Educational Resource library on EBP. The course has been designed as a strategy for learning and training EBP in nursing oriented to undergraduate nursing students and professional nurses. The content has been developed using interactive multimedia tools, videos, clinical scenarios, quizzes, interactive games, examples and multiple activities to facilitate students’ self-learning. The materials have been validated with nursing students with very satisfactory learning and usage results.This project has been conducted by a partnership of six HEIs: University of Murcia, Hellenic Mediterranean University, UNIMORE, Angela Boškin Faculty of Health Care, University of Ostrava and Medical University of Warsaw. The collaboration brought together partners with a deep interest in the development of EBP in the nursing curricula. All of them teach EBP in the Nursing Degree as well as in continuing education for nurses. The Consortium has established the European Nursing virtual Centre for Learning Evidence-based Practice (ENCLEBP) to guarantee the project dissemination and sustainability and to facilitate and improve transnational academic cooperation between European countries and non-European countries.The the European Nursing virtual Centre for Learning Evidence-based Practice and all the resources developed in the project are open access and available in 7 languages: English, Spanish, Polish, Czech, Italian, Greek and Sloven. All the results of the project are free and available here: https://europeannursingebp.eu/ We expect that a great numbers of nursing students, educators and public health services will benefit from the results of this project. Furthermore, we expect to improve the quality of nursing care practice and patient´s health outcomes."
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