10I: Scaffolding EBP Competencies to Build Skills in a DNP Program

Friday, September 19 | 4:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. 

Improving evidence-based practice (EBP) competency is essential to promote health care quality and safe patient care among practicing nurses. This study examines how implementing innovative best practices using a competency-based education (CBE) approach to scaffold learning opportunities throughout a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program demonstrates students’ progress toward achieving EBP competencies.

Presenters: 

Karen Kesten, DNP, APRN, CCNS, CNE, FAAN | The George Washington University

Karen Whitt, PhD, APRN, AGN-BC, FNP-C, FAANP | The George Washington University