NURSES' evidence-based practice competence and hospital practice environment after specific training under the best practice spotlight organization® programme. A cross sectional study

Abstract

The aim of the study was to evaluate the impact of a specific training within the framework of the Best Practice Spotlight Organization® programme, on nurses' evidence-based practice competence and the practice environment in two hospitals. The study sample were 204 nurses working at medical and surgical inpatient units at two hospitals involved in the Best Practice Spotlight Organization® programme. They were classified into two groups: those who had received specific training within the framework of the programme, called trained-champions (n = 66), and those who had not yet received training, control group (n = 138). The trained-champions exhibited better evidence-based practice competence values than the control group in all dimensions (p < 0.001), with a higher difference in means in the “Utilisation” dimension (−0.80; CI:-0.99,-0.60) and the “Knowledge” dimension (−0.63; CI:-0.88,-0.38). The conclusions are that Specific EBP training within the framework of the Best Practice Spotlight Organization® programme has succeeded in nurses (trained-champions) obtaining better EBP competence than others without this training.