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Conferences

Find out about upcoming conferences related to evidence-based practice. Stay up-to-date with the latest information, meet your continuing education requirements, network with colleagues, and more! Also, access archived webcasts from OVID to help you understand the evidence and improve outcomes.

Knowledge in Motion: Evidence-Based Care
April 26, 2013
Oyster Point Hotel
Red Bank, New Jersey

National Conference for Nurse Practitioners
May 1-4, 2013
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center
Nashville, Tennessee

Archived Podcasts from OVID

Demystifying Meaningful Use: Impact on Health Information Technology and Improving Practice and Outcomes 
Learn from expert speakers who are affiliated with some of healthcare’s “most wired” institutions and whose institutions have received accolades from Healthcare Information Systems Management System Society (HIMSS) for best practices in the realm of the electronic healthcare record and meaningful use.

Four High Impact Ideas that Can Change Patient Safety
Dr. Charles Denham, the editor of the Journal of Patient Safety, examines the latest data on the behaviors that contribute to poor patient safety rates today.Then a panel of leading patient safety experts weigh in about how simple yet effective changes made by healthcare suppliers, providers, and purchasers can change today's fragmented provider-centered environment to an integrated, patient-centered world.

 Demystifying Research: Simplifying Critical Appraisal
Anne Dabrow Woods, MSN, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, Chief Nurse of Wolters Kluwer Health / Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Journals and Ovid Technologies, and Maureen “Shawn” Kennedy, MA, RN, Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Nursing, have a discussion with Dr. Ellen Fineout-Overholt, PhD, RN, FNAP, FAAN, to address the steps to critically appraise research evidence and demonstrate how to embrace the process of distilling the pearls that research has to offer.