Article
Current Status of Teaching Evidence-based Nursing to Nursing Students and Educational Strategies for Dissemination
| e-ISSN | 2288-775X |
| Received | 2017-11-27 |
| Revised | 2017-11-27 |
| Accepted | 2017-12-16 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.54003/kebn.2017.5.1.4 |
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Abstract
Purpose: This study aims to identify current status of evidence-based nursing education to nursing students and strategies for dissemination. Methods: For investigation of current education status of evidence-based nursing, a searching for websites of 204 nursing colleges in Korea. And a focus-group interview was performed. Ten participants were faculties working at college of nursing. Interview data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Results: Nineteen (9.3%) colleges were running evidence-based nursing (EBN) course in the undergraduate course and 29 colleges opened EBN course in the graduate school. Five topics regarding experience on teaching EBN were as follows, 1) there are need to teaching EBN in nursing colleges 2) EBN education leads to improvement in professional perception and research, but low level of feed-back also indicated. 3) Barriers were lack of faculty ability, difficulty in course management, limitation of resource and gaps in practice. 4) Facilitators were changes in clinical nursing practice, teaching faculty and developing teaching program. 5) Educational strategies for dissemination were changes on external evaluation and strengthening of academic society activities. Conclusion: EBN education for nursing students are effective in improving critical thinking and nursing research. Developing strategies for dissemination of EBN to nursing students are needed.