The Fellowship Program will assist participants in understanding how evidence-based practice can help to positively impact health system priorities, in addition to mastering graduate-level EBP knowledge, skills, and abilities. The series of workshops and coaching sessions that comprise the fellowship program are intended to guide competitively selected clinicians to develop, implement, evaluate, and disseminate a formal practice change in their microsystem. The main goals of the fellowship program are to advance clinical practice and improve patient and family care that advance organizational priorities. The program objectives for the fellowship program include:
- Compare and contrast research, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement.
- Identify practice questions that are amendable to the process of evidence-based practice and aligned with organizational strategic priorities.
- Apply an evidence-based practice model through the development of a practice change.
- Demonstrate skills needed to develop and implement an evidence-based practice change:
- Develop a searchable, clinical question
- Complete a comprehensive and systematic literature search
- Critically appraise and synthesize a body of evidence
- Assimilate scientific and clinical knowledge to arrive at practice recommendations that are evidence-based.
- Document the level of evidence for each practice recommendation.
- Develop an implementation plan to effect change in practice.
- Identify and use implementation science strategies for effecting behavior change among nurses and interprofessional team members.
- Evaluate outcomes from the change in practice.
- Collect and analyze data through the use of descriptive and/or inferential statistics or qualitative means.
- Formulate a formal sustainability plan for the practice change.
- Disseminate the EBP initiative to internal department and/or hospital committees and councils.
- Identify and execute an external dissemination plan to share the EBP initiative results at a professional conference or publication.
During the 10-month fellowship program, participants will utilize an EBP model to guide them through the 7 steps of the EBP process. To best support the fellows during the program, a primary EBP mentor will be assigned to work individually with each fellow, in addition to monthly team coaching sessions with a subject matter expert coach and operational sponsor from the organization the participant currently is employed at. The monthly workshops will align with the implementation process timeline and feature didactic teachings, opportunities for application and experiential learning exercises. EBP Fellows will be expected to disseminate their work through both internal and external efforts. For more information, click the UCSF EBP fellowship page below.
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EBP Fellowship Program Eligibility Criteria
• Minimum of 2 years of clinical experience
• At least 1-year full-time employment as a clinician
• Currently employed in a full-time career position (≥ 70% or .7 FTE) as a clinician at your organization. You must remain in this position/role for the duration of the fellowship program.
• Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint
• Interest in an identified health system priority
• Identified by your Supervisor/Unit Director as a team player with strong written and verbal communication, interpersonal skills, and an employee who meets or exceeds expectations on their performance evaluation