Implementing evidence-based practice to develop nursing curriculum

Higher education is a critical component of society’s culture and knowledge that plays an important role in the society’s political and economic development. Higher education worldwide is changing and so too is nursing education, in particular, at tertiary level. The change in what and how we teach our future nursing generation depend largely on the country’s needs for health care services for the increasing ageing population with increasing burden of chronic diseases. With these changes, the requirements for nursing practice call for health care professional to implement current best evidence interventions in making sound clinical decisions.
Fundamental preparing of nurses for the requirements for practice depends on their educational preparation. While there has been consensus on the importance of evidence-based practice (EBP), discussions on how to embed EBP as an educational paradigm and the inclusion of this as a standard in nursing curricula is limited. Although curriculum change is a slow process, we as nurse educators and leaders could guide the directions of nursing curriculum development that would inculcate EBP in our teachers and students alike...