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| Core element | Strategy |
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| Innovation | Enhance the evidence-based practice skills of nurses |
| Promote the application of research evidence to inform the innovation |
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| Recipients | EBP groups formation process:
(a) The core team developed the recruitment criteria |
Recruitment criteria: committed to EBP; have skills related to EBP; encourage master’s degree and head nurses to participate
(b) Nurses submitted the application to nursing department |
| (c) The core team assessed the applicants and set up EBP groups. Principles: each group had nurses from the same or related specialties and comprised nurses in a leadership position (head nurse/supervisor/vice director) and who had a master’s degree |
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| Context | Local level |
| Same or related specialties had a similar setting and environment, which ensured the same interest in choosing EBP questions and enabled the implementation of research evidence |
| Organization level |
| Hospital and nursing department supported and provided training, multidiscipline collaboration, and necessary facilities |
| External healthcare system level |
| The priority was to narrow the gap between evidence and practice and improve patients’ outcomes; this was hampered, however, by a lack of EBP skills |
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| Facilitation | Facilitators |
| Internal facilitator: the core team of nursing department; one member was assigned as the coordinator of this project |
| External facilitator: three members of the Fudan University JBI Evidence-based Nursing Cooperation Center |
| Facilitation strategies |
| The core team organized a two-month intermittent training of EBP guided by a well-educated EBP team |
| Each EBP group was required to conduct one EBP project per year. Regular meetings were held for audits of the projects |
| The coordinator tracked the process of each EBP project and provided regular feedback |
| The coordinator reviewed and updated the members of EBP groups annually |
| An external facilitator navigated the implementation of evidence in projects |
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