Practical education: Clinical scenario-based program development

Problem-solving approach created for better healthcare delivery and nursing skills

2025-12-22

(Press-News.org) To reduce mortality rates, fall and tumble rates, and delirium incidence among hospitalized patients, it is crucial for nurses to learn Evidence-Based Practice (EBP). To achieve this, developing effective EBP education programs is essential. However, traditional EBP education programs have faced challenges, such as not covering all aspects of the EBP process and lacking rigorous evaluation methods for these programs.

Dr. Hideaki Furuki and colleagues at Osaka Metropolitan University’s Graduate School of Nursing have developed a new educational program incorporating instruction on all processes of EBP. They conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the program's effectiveness, dividing 87 nurses working at hospitals in Japan into an intervention group (44 nurses) that received the program and a control group (43 nurses) that did not. As a result, the intervention group demonstrated significantly higher scores in EBP knowledge and skills, as well as EBP practice, compared to the control group immediately after the intervention and two months later.

“This finding suggests that this program is an effective approach for enhancing nurses' knowledge and skills in EBP and promoting its implementation, potentially leading to improvements in patient mortality rates and fall incidence rates,” stated Dr. Furuki.

The study was published in Japan Journal of Nursing Science.

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