Today's challenge, tomorrow's excellence: the practice of evidence-based education

J Nurs Educ. 2008 Aug;47(8):359-70. doi: 10.3928/01484834-20080801-04.

Abstract

Nurse educators are being challenged to maintain quality in light of increasing numbers of students, declining numbers of experienced faculty, societal mandates, and rapid changes in health care. The scholarship underlying the practice of nursing education, or evidence-based education, must continue to be explored through the design, testing, and refinement of education strategies from nursing and other disciplines. The involvement of every educator in this process will help create institutional valuing that serves to retain inquisitive and reflective educators in academic settings, while expanding evidence-based education in nursing. This article describes a literature review of the scholarship of nursing education practice and suggests approaches to generate a dynamic explosion of growth in nursing education to inform our students, promote optimal client health outcomes, and challenge each of us to reach higher levels of excellence in the practice of nursing education.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Attitude of Health Personnel
  • Career Mobility
  • Curriculum
  • Diffusion of Innovation
  • Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / organization & administration*
  • Evidence-Based Medicine / education*
  • Faculty, Nursing / organization & administration*
  • Forecasting
  • Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
  • Health Services Needs and Demand
  • Humans
  • Models, Educational
  • Models, Nursing
  • Nurse's Role
  • Nursing Education Research / organization & administration*
  • Nursing Research / education*
  • Organizational Culture
  • Organizational Innovation
  • Philosophy, Nursing
  • Professional Competence
  • Research Design
  • Research Support as Topic / organization & administration
  • Teaching / organization & administration