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| Title |
Educating change agents: a qualitative descriptive study of graduates of a Master’s program in evidence-based practice
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| Published in |
BMC Medical Education, February 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12909-016-0597-1 |
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| Authors |
Grete Oline Hole, Sissel Johansson Brenna, Birgitte Graverholt, Donna Ciliska, Monica Wammen Nortvedt |
| Abstract |
Health care professionals are expected to build decisions upon evidence. This implies decisions based on the best available, current, valid and relevant evidence, informed by clinical expertise and patient values. A multi-professional master's program in evidence-based practice was developed and offered. The aims of this study were to explore how students in this program viewed their ability to apply evidence-based practice and their perceptions of what constitute necessary conditions to implement evidence-based practice in health care organizations, one year after graduation. A qualitative descriptive design was chosen to examine the graduates' experiences. All students in the first two cohorts of the program were invited to participate. Six focus-group interviews, with a total of 21 participants, and a telephone interview of one participant were conducted. The data was analyzed thematically, using the themes from the interview guide as the starting point. The graduates reported that an overall necessary condition for evidence-based practice to occur is the existence of a "readiness for change" both at an individual level and at the organizational level. They described that they gained personal knowledge and skills to be "change-agents" with "self-efficacy, "analytic competence" and "tools" to implement evidence based practice in clinical care. An organizational culture of a "learning organization" was also required, where leaders have an "awareness of evidence- based practice", and see the need for creating "evidence-based networks". One year after graduation the participants saw themselves as "change agents" prepared to improve clinical care within a learning organization. The results of this study provides useful information for facilitating the implementation of EBP both from educational and health care organizational perspectives. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1 | 17% |
| Canada | 1 | 17% |
| Norway | 1 | 17% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |
| France | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 1 | 17% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 3 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 3 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 82 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Iraq | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 80 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 18 | 22% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 10% |
| Lecturer | 6 | 7% |
| Other | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 20 | 24% |
| Unknown | 16 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 23 | 28% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 9 | 11% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 11% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 4 | 5% |
| Psychology | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 13 | 16% |
| Unknown | 20 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 February 2017.
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#2,287,649
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Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#364
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#38,604
of 298,590 outputs
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#10
of 87 outputs
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