Target Audience

This program is designed for nurse scientists or clinicians (PhD, DNS, DNP) who conduct research or develop new practice models in clinical and academic settings; administrators, managers and corporate officers in hospitals and health systems who are seeking to improve outcomes or seeking or maintaining magnet recognition; vendors developing data acquisition systems; study nurses; and advanced practice nursing graduate students. The expected audience will also include interdisciplinary colleagues in informatics, statistics, public health and other health-related disciplines.

Conference Objectives

1. Examine practice-based evidence as a complementary paradigm to generate knowledge for clinical practice.
2. Cite examples of clinical case studies using at least one approach to discover practice- based evidence.
3. Describe the future of. informatics in defining, deploying and using the evidence within clinical information systems.
4. Discuss examples of the development and/or utilization of computer-based technologies to leverage data captured in electronic medical records for the purpose of knowledge development, practice evaluation, and improved outcomes.