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DNP Program Guide

This guide provides resources, tools, and information for the College of Nursing's Nurse Practioner Degree program including information pertaining to nursing theories & models, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement.

What is Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)?

"Placing the client's benefits first, evidence-based practitioners adopt a process of lifelong learning that involves continually posing specific questions of direct practical importance to clients, searching objectively and efficiently for the current best evidence relative to each question, and taking appropriate action guided by evidence." (Gibbs, 2003)


"...the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of the individual patient. It means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research." (Sackett et al, 1996)

EBP Scholarship

Evidence-Based Practice Resources