Research to Practice: Successful Partnerships to Enhance EvidenceBased Nursing Skills Across the Cur

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Research to Practice Successful Partnerships to
Enhance Evidence-Based Nursing Skills Across the
Curriculum

• Janet G. Schnall, MS, AHIP
• Emily E. Hull, MLS
• Terry Ann Jankowski, MLS, AHIP
• Joanne Rich, BScPharm, MLIS

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Purpose

• Describe collaboration between librarians and
  faculty to integrate instruction on
  evidence-based nursing resources into the
  curriculum at three academic levels, BSN, MN/MS,
  and PhD, using a variety of methods and
  technologies

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University of Washington Health Sciences
Libraries

• Part of a large urban academic medical center
• Serves 6 nationally ranked health sciences
  schools
• 20,000 primary clients (faculty, staff,
  students)

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• Education by HSL Liaisons - 2002
• 336 sessions
• 5416 individuals
• 90 in curriculum or point of use
• 50 out of library

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UW School of Nursing

• Ranked 1 by U.S. News and World Report every
  year since survey began in 1984
• 470 students, including 300 graduate students
• 120 faculty plus 600 clinical faculty
• Offers BSN, MN, MS and PhD degrees

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Collaboration
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Nursing Library Liaison

• Collaborated with nursing faculty for over ten
  years
• Incorporated nursing informatics classes into the
  curriculum

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Nursing Curriculum IntegrationSix Core
Informatics Modules

• Getting Started with Library Resources
  Literature Searching
• Navigating the Web Using Search Tools and
  Evaluating Resources
• Basic Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice
  Resources
• Research to Practice Advanced Techniques for
  Finding Information for Clinical Practice
• Managing the Literature with Current Awareness
  Services and EndNote
• Finding Measurement Tools

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Research to Practice Module

• Collaboration librarian/faculty/clinician-NP
• Models real-world evidence-based literature
  searching
• Commentary by the clinician to teach students how
  to apply skills to lifelong clinical practice

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Faculty role tie it all together

• Initiated collaboration
• Explains EBP
• Teaches how to evaluate research studies
• Reinforces librarians presentation with multiple
  assignments

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Librarians role searching the literature
Systematic Reviews/Meta-analyses
Evidence Summaries
Clinical Practice Guidelines
Research Articles
Review Articles Textbooks
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Web Tutorial
Web Tutorial
http//healthlinks.washington.edu/hsl/classes/ res
earchtopractice/
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Clinicians role clinical commentary

• Provides sample question
• Ties information seeking to clinical practice
• Comments on usefulness of each category of
  resource
• Comments on quality and clinical relevance of
  the results

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Research to Practice
nursing faculty
nurse
librarian
librarian
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More collaboration

• Grants
• Liaison part of several Nursing School grants
• 5-10 salary for 3 distance Rural Advanced
  Practice grants
• Liaison consults with faculty for library
  involvement in additional grant proposals
• Additional EBP classes

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Evolution of Teaching Technologies
Streaming Video
Interactive Modules
Sample Searches
Web Outlines
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Web Outlines
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Sample Searches
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Transform from static web to interactive modules

• Could be used for virtual learning on and off
  site
• Hired Educational Technology Specialist
• EndNote and Rx Finding Drug Information
• Time consuming
• Case-based scenarios

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Interactive modules
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Nursing Methods distance classes Summer 2002

• Online only
• Course web site with assignments, readings,
  online discussions
• How to handle informatics modules?

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Use streaming video forlibrary modules

• Why?
• Culture of videotaped lectures on Reserve
• Support both distance and on-campus students
• Librarian-faculty-IT collaboration

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Librarian thoughts

• Computer screen shots fuzzy and difficult to read
  online
• Not worth time and effort to videotape first
• Decision use Camtasia exclusively

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What is Camtasia?

• Software that captures screen activity and sounds
  of any Windows desktop for a defined time
• Produces videos to be streamed
• Suite of 3 programs, including Camtasia Recorder
  and Camtasia Producer
• Cost approx. 350

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Streaming Video Evaluation Results

• Good acceptance of video, although still
  preferred in-person session
• Other formats would also be acceptable
• Viewed more than once
• Would be more useful if indexed or sub-divided

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Evaluation of EBP education

• Print surveys
• Online questionnaires
• Pre- and post-test for Research to Practice
  module

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Outcome 1

• Better understanding of EBP resources by both
  students and faculty
• Evaluations
• Posters, Oral reports, Written reports
• Better questions from students

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Outcome 2

• More collaboration between librarians and faculty
  leading to increased curriculum-integrated
  teaching by librarians

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Outcome 3

• Expanded integration into BSN curriculum
• Liaison part of new SoN informatics grant
• Teach EBP resources to BSN Research methods
  classes
• Will do basic EBP interactive tutorial

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Outcome 4

• Provide continued access to EBP sources after
  graduation via web-based toolkits
• Nurse Toolkit
• Life after the U

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Outcome 5

• Using streaming video to annotate more web Help
  pages
• Example PubMed at the UW
• http//healthlinks.washington.edu/help/pubmed.html
  

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http//healthlinks.washington.edu/help/pubmed.html

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Future

• Continue to build librarian-faculty collaboration
  including faculty appointment
• Codify informatics competencies and assessment
  within the curriculum
• Further expand teaching EBP resources in BSN
  curriculum