Program at a Glance
At the conclusion of the Conference, the participant should be able to:

Discuss the value of EBP within a complex and dynamically changing health care landscape.

Describe the tools and pathways of DCI© in enculturating EBP and cultivating innovation.

Review the five EBP skill sets and practical applications to clinical practice.

Examine the learning and organizational strategies for implementing EBP leading to a transformed care
    delivery system.

Describe EBP as the driver in promoting a culture of innovation.


Conference Program at a Glance

The purpose of this conference is to address the opportunities and challenges of
mainstreaming EBP and leading the nursing workforce to "knowledge-force" to bolster nurses' readiness for the future.

During the concurrent sessions, you may select from either one or a combination of tracks:

     

Learning Track
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Launching Track
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 Leading Track
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engages you to acquire
EBP inquiry skills for
transforming nursing practice

challenges you to seek creative
  strategies for implementing EBP

 stimulates you to probe into the
    politics and power of EBP
for steering change and innovation

Early on site Registration: April 24 (Wednesday) from 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Main Lobby - Front Grand Ballroom Foyer

 

Day 1: April 25, 2013 (Thursday)

 

7:00-8:00

Registration 
Continental Breakfast
Main Lobby - Front & Left Grand Ballroom Foyer

   

8:00-8:10

Welcome
Main Lobby - Grand Ballroom

   

8:10–9:45

Opening Keynote Speaker
Tim Porter-O’Grady, DM, EdD, ScD(h), FAAN
Surfing the Waves of EBP: Advancing Practice, Transforming Care, Promoting Innovation

Main Lobby - Grand Ballroom

9:45-10:00

Break/Refreshments
Main Lobby - Left Grand Ballroom Foyer

   

10:00-11:15

Featured Speaker
Dolora (Dolly) Sanares-Carreon, MPA, RN, NE-BC
Mainstreaming Disciplined Clinical Inquiry (DCI©):
A Platform for Building Knowledge-Force and Driving Innovation

Main Lobby - Grand Ballroom

   
 

Concurrent Sessions

   




11:15-12:15

Learning Track
Session A
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2nd Floor - Windjammer

Launching Track Session B
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2nd Floor - Elisa

Leading Track
Session C
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2nd Floor - West Mainsail

 

 

 
A1: ASK a Focused Question B1: Capturing the Ripples of EBP  in a Nursing Professional Practice Model C1: Streaming EBP in a Culture of Value-Based Competition

12:15-1:15


12:15-2:00

Lunch and Networking
Main Lobby - Grand Ballroom and Foyer

Exhibit Hall Open for Unmanned Posters and Exhibits Viewing

2nd Floor - East Mainsail

 

2:00-3:00




3:00-4:00

A2: ACCESS the Evidence
 

B2: Developing EBP Tools amidst the Sea of Rapid Change
 

C2: Achieving Evidence-Based Patient Care in a Tsunami of a Digitized Information Age

     

A3: APPRAISE the Evidence


 

B3: Forging Interdisciplinary Voyages to Provide Evidence-Based Patient Care
 

C3: Surging the Crest of Enhancing Patient Experience through EBP
 

4:00-5:00 Break/Refreshments
Manned Posters' Viewing and Exhibits (meet the authors) 
     2nd Floor - East Mainsail
  
  Special Viewing of the DCI© one-stop EBP Website  
    2nd Floor - Leeward Room
 

6:00-8:00

Evening Networking:
Join us poolside overlooking the Gulf of Mexico for cocktails and appetizers

 

Day 2: April 26, 2013 (Friday)

 

7:00-8:00

  Registration, Continental Breakfast
 
Main Lobby - Front & Left Grand Ballroom Foyer
 
  Poster Viewing
 
2nd Floor - East Mainsail  
 

8:00-9:20
Featured Speaker

Ellen Fineout-Overholt, PhD, RN, FNAP, FAAN  
Demystifying the Myths and Capturing the High Tides of EBP

Main Lobby - Grand Ballroom

 

 

 

Concurrent Sessions

   





9:20-10:20

Learning Track
Session A
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2nd Floor - Windjammer

Launching Track
Session B
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2nd Floor - Elisa

Leading Track:
Session C
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2nd Floor - West Mainsail

     

A4: APPLY the Evidence
 
 

B4: Employing EBP as an Anchor for Improvement Initiatives
 

C4: Sailing the Ethics of EBP

 

10:20–10:40

  Break/Refreshments and Unmanned Poster Viewing     

   
10:40-11:40

A5: ALERT Peers

 

B5: Embedding EBP in the High Seas of Nursing Systems
 

C5: Forging a Network of EBP
Culture Keepers and
Wave-Makers

 

11:40-1:00
 

  Lunch, Networking, and Unmanned Posters & Exhibits Viewing
 
Main Lobby - Grand Ballroom and Foyer
   
1:00-2:00

A6: Coming Ashore: Transforming Practice through DCI-5As
 

B6: Navigating the Magnet Journey within a Culture of EBP

C6: Cruising the Metrics of 
Evaluating EBP Outcomes and Return on Investments
 

   
2:00-3:20
Closing Keynote Speaker

Scott E. Parazynski, MD  
Launching into the Future: A Worldview of EBP as Catalyst for Innovation

Main Lobby - Grand Ballroom

3:20-3:45

 Conference Evaluation and Door Prizes
 Main Lobby - Grand Ballroom

 

Enjoy the Galveston beach and resorts!

 

CALL for ABSTRACT

go to www.utmb.edu/DCI/EBPConference

 


ACCREDITATION

The University of Texas Medical Branch CNE Approved Provider Unit is an approved provider of
continuing nursing education by the Texas Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the
American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
 


This educational program provides 11.5 contact hours
of continuing nursing education