Description: The EBP competencies are measured using an EBP competency self-assessment scale. The EBP competencies include 13 essential competencies for practicing registered clinicians and an additional 11 competencies for advanced practice clinicians. A score of 3 or higher on each item represents competence.
Psychometrics: The scale has established face, content, and construct validity with internal consistency reliabilities of 0.98 (Melnyk et al., 2018).
Reference:
Melnyk, B. M., Gallagher-Ford, L., Long, L. E., & Fineout-Overholt, E. (2014). The establishment of evidence-based practice competencies for practicing registered nurses and advanced practice nurses in real-world clinical settings: proficiencies to improve healthcare quality, reliability, patient outcomes, and costs. Worldviews on evidence-based nursing, 11(1), 5–15. doi.org/10.1111/wvn.12021
Melnyk, B. M., Gallagher-Ford, L., Zellefrow, C., Tucker, S., Thomas, B., Sinnott, L. T., & Tan, A. (2018). The First U.S. Study on Nurses' Evidence-Based Practice Competencies Indicates Major Deficits That Threaten Healthcare Quality, Safety, and Patient Outcomes. Worldviews on evidence-based nursing, 15(1), 16–25. doi.org/10.1111/wvn.12269
Description: The EBP competencies are measured using an EBP competency self-assessment scale. The EBP competencies include 13 essential competencies for practicing registered clinicians and an additional 11 competencies for advanced practice clinicians. A score of 3 or higher on each item represents competence.
Psychometrics: The scale has established face, content, and construct validity with internal consistency reliabilities of 0.98 (Melnyk et al., 2018).
Reference:
Melnyk, B. M., Gallagher-Ford, L., Long, L. E., & Fineout-Overholt, E. (2014). The establishment of evidence-based practice competencies for practicing registered nurses and advanced practice nurses in real-world clinical settings: proficiencies to improve healthcare quality, reliability, patient outcomes, and costs. Worldviews on evidence-based nursing, 11(1), 5–15. doi.org/10.1111/wvn.12021
Melnyk, B. M., Gallagher-Ford, L., Zellefrow, C., Tucker, S., Thomas, B., Sinnott, L. T., & Tan, A. (2018). The First U.S. Study on Nurses' Evidence-Based Practice Competencies Indicates Major Deficits That Threaten Healthcare Quality, Safety, and Patient Outcomes. Worldviews on evidence-based nursing, 15(1), 16–25. doi.org/10.1111/wvn.12269
