Academic Center for Evidence-based Practice Readiness Inventory

One Florida tertiary hospital employed the Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice-Preparation Inventory (ACE-ERI), created by Stevens, to assess nurses’ readiness for and understanding of EBP. According to survey findings, nurses generally have a reasonable level of trust in utilizing EBP but little knowledge of it, and the instrument’s validity and reliability are significantly beyond expectations for a replacement research tool.

  • Reliability and validity levels suggest that users can be confident in the instrument scores.
  • ACE-ERI scores are significantly correlated with scores on EBP knowledge and implementation instruments.

The ACE-ERI utilizes the ACE star models of knowledge transformation (Stevens, 2004)

The ACE star model of knowledge transformation in a relative sequence

  • Discovery
  • Summary
  • Translation
  • Integration
  • Evaluation

Five versions of the ACE-ERI were created, including primary or intermediate levels for clinicians or advanced classes for students.

The EBP movement started by defining the issue as the intolerable gap between what we all know and how we treat patients. The improvement of healthcare quality may depend heavily on EBP, and Evidence-based practice was a vital component of the recommended approach to bridge this gap. The ACE-ERI may be used in clinical and student populations to evaluate self-efficacy on specific EBP competencies over time, as demonstrated by using pre-post study designs with clinicians.

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