Skip to Main Content

Nursing Research & Evidence-Based Practice Toolkit

FREE resources for nurses and nursing students conducting research, evidence-based practice (EBP), and quality improvement (QI) projects courtesy of the Inova Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice Department and the Inova Health Sciences Library

Presenting, Publishing, & Sharing

Templates

Inova PPT Template (2020)

 
Tips

How to write abstracts for manuscripts, presentations, and grants: Maximizing information in a 30-s sound bite world

Punch up your podium presentations

Presentation Tips from Duarte's Slide:ology

Video Q&A's with Zen-master Garr Reynolds

10 Tips for Improving Your Presentations

Life After Death by Powerpoint

The KWICK Methods for Creating Persuasive Visuals

VCU Libraries the "elevator pitch" 

Resources

Medical images sources on the left.

Inova Health Sciences Library offers a number of services to assist you in your presentation & publishing efforts. These services include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Expert literature searching
  • Citation & bibliographic assistance, including RefWorks registration and training
  • Recommending publications appropriate for your manuscript topic
  • Assistance in development of research, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement posters and presentations
  • Basic figure, table, and image trouble-shooting and advice
Reporting Guidelines for Study & ProjectTypes

Journal publishers are increasingly encouraging author to use appropriate reporting guidelines when preparing and submitting manuscripts, to maximise transparency and reproducibility. 

  • CONSORT for randomized controlled trials
  • TREND for non-randomized trials
  • PRISMA for systematic review and meta-analyses
  • CARE for case reports
  • STROBE for observational studies
  • STREGA for genetic association studies
  • SRQR for qualitative studies
  • STARD for diagnostic accuracy studies
  • SQUIRE 2.0 Guidelines for quality improvement studies & projects
  • ARRIVE for animal experiments
blue ribbon~Blurb about all our wonderful award-wining projects, posters, presentations~

~will make this look prettier/more festive soon!~

 

Virginia Nurses Association

Year
Title
Hospital
Award

2015

Implementing an Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Approach to Improve Perception of Nurses- Patient Communication at the Bedside.

L Lyn Zehner1, MN, RN, AOCN, AOCNS; Rachel Watson1, BSN, RN CMSRN; Kimberley George-Shields1, BSN, RN; Sandy Danquah1, BSN; Yeruti Silva2, BSN, RN; Eunice Esunge2 BSN, RN; Carrie Friedman3, BS, RN, OCN

Inova Alexandria Hospital

First Place Evidence Based Practice Project

2016

Communication of Surgical Delays to Patients and Family Members, Sholet Hampton, BSN, RN-BC; Laura Hart, BSN, RN, CNOR; Joanne Gucciardo, MS, BSN, RN, NE-BC; Michelle Tsai, PMHNP, BSN, RN-BC; Chastity Johnson, BS, MDiv

Inova Mount Vernon Hospital

First Place Evidence Based Practice Project

2017

The Molar, the Merrier: The Impact of a Focused Protocol to Reduce Non-Ventilator Associated Healthcare Acquired Pneumonia

; Rachel Cathey, MSEd, BSN, RN-BC; Megan Chiriboga, BSN, BA, RN; Daniel Mehan, BSN, BS, RN; Cathy Edwards, BSN, RN; Taylor Whetstone; Christina Cain, MPH; Dorothy Boresky, DNP, MBA, RN, NE-BC; Maureen D. Lansing, BSN, RN, CIC; Yolima Moncada, MSN, FNP, APRN-BC

Inova Alexandria Hospital

First Place Evidence Based Practice Project

2018

Does Education Level or Specialty Certification Influence the Level of Breastfeeding Support that Nurses Intend to Provide to Newly Delivered Mothers?

Linda Cassar, DNP, RNC-OB; Cynthia Bauley, BA, RN, IBCLC, RLC; Tracy Cross BSN, RN, IBCLC, RLC; Lani Brown, MSN, RNC-OB; Monica Brannon, BSN, RN, IBCLC, RLC; Debra Stanger, MSN, RN, NEA-BC; Frances Collins, MSN, RN, CCRN-K; Dorothy Boresky DNP, RN, NE-BC; Martha Schneider DNP, RN, NEA-BC; Mary Ann Friesen, PhD, RN, CPHQ.: Quiping Zhou, PhD, RN
 

Inova Alexandria, Fairfax, Inova Fair Oaks,  Inova Loudoun

Best Poster VNA Innovation Conference for the category - Innovation in Direct Clinical Care

2019

Psychosocial Benefits of Music Therapy for Hospitalized Antepartum Patients: A Case Series

Jaimee Robinson, MSN, RNC-OB; Marie Tolliver, BSN, RNC-OB; Ashley Crowther, BSN, RN; Jennifer Truax, MSN, FNP-BC, RNC-OB; Debra Stanger, MSN, RN, NE-BC, NEA-BC; Carol Swamidoss Douglas, PhD, MPH, RNC-MNN- Inova Loudoun Hospital and Inova Fairfax Medical Campus

Mary Ann Friesen, PhD, RN, CPHQ-Inova Health System

Johanna Horn, MT-BC; Anthony Meadows, PhD, MT-BC, FAMI, LPC- Shenandoah University

Inova Loudoun

Best Overall Poster Award
Emergency Nurses Association

 

Year

Title

Hospital

Award

2016

Effectiveness of Video Discharge Instructions in the Pediatric Emergency Department: A nurse –led Evidence Based Practice Project.

Elyssa B Wood, PhD, RN; Gina Harrison, MSN, RN; Serena McReynolds, BSN, RN; Lauren Nassr, BSN, RN; Kristina Presgrave, BSN, RN; Erin Rovelli, RN; Sarah Stinson, BSN, RN; Amber Trickey, PhD; Eugenia Charles, MD; Jill McCabe, MD

ILH

Emergency Nurses Association 2019 Best Evidence-Based Practice Poster

2019

The Effectiveness of Video-Discharge Instructions among the Spanish Speaking Population in the Pediatric Emergency Department

Elyssa B Wood, PhD, MPH, RN, CPEN, TCRN;  Gina Harrison, MSN, RN, NE-BC, Sarah Stinson, BSN, RN, CPEN; Kristina Presgrave, BSN, RN, CPEN;  Erin Rovelli, BSN, RN-Inova Loudoun Hospital

Mary Ann Friesen, PhD, RN, CPHQ-Inova Health System

ILH

Emergency Nurses Association 2019 Best Research Poster

 

2019

Don’t Stick Me Again! Reducing Blood Culture Contamination

Kara Bauman, MN, RN, CEN, CPEN, TCRN, - Inova Fairfax Medical Campus

IFMC

Emergency Nurses Association 2019 Best Evidence-Based Practice Poster

 
Annual Spring into Research Conference by the Reston Hospital Center Research Committee and Eta Alpha Chapter Sigma Theta Tau Marymount

 

Year

Title

Hospital

Award

2016

The Effects of Healing Touch on the Vital Signs of Critical Care Patients.

Theresa M. Davis, PhD, RN, NE-BC1; Mary Ann Friesen, PhD, RN, CPHQ1; Vicki Lindgren, MSN, RN, CNS, CCRN, CCNS2; Amanda Golino, MSN, RN, CCRN, CCNS3; Robin Jackson, BSHS, MSN, RN-BC, CCRN, CCNS4; Karen Hicks, MSN, RN, NE-BC4; Jennifer Kyte, DNP, MSN, RN5; Diane Swengros, MSN, RN-BC1; Anna Herbst, MSN, RN-BC1, Maria Obeid, DNP, AGNP-BC, RN, CCRC5; Lucrezia Mangione, MA,  LCPC, CMT, CHTP/I5; & Joel G. Anderson, PhD, CHTP6.

IAH, IFOH, ILH, IMVH

1st Place Research Poster

2017

The Survivability of Peripheral Venous Access Following Blood-Sampling in Pediatric Population

Sheree O’Neil, MSN, RN, CPN; Anne Gutierrez, MSN, RN, CPN; Pam Kravatz, BSN, RN, CPN; Jennifer Perry, MSN, RN, CPN; Christina Symons, BS, BSN, RN, CPN; Mary Ann Friesen PhD, RN, CPHQ; Debbie Stanger, MSN, RN, NE-BC; Amber Williams Trickey, PhD, MS, CPH.

ILH

1st Place Research Poster.

2018

The Impact of an Active Music Therapy Intervention on Vital Signs, Pain and Anxiety on Patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Amanda J. Golino, MSN, RN, CCRN, CCNS, RN-BC, Raymond Leone, MT-BC: A Place To Be/Shenandoah University,

Debra L. Stanger, MSN, RN, NE-BC, Catherine J. Christopher, M.ED., CCC-SLP, Mary Ann Friesen, PhD, RN, CPHQ, Theresa M. Davis, PhD, RN, NE-BC, CHTP

Anthony Meadows PhD, MT-BC, LPC, FAMI: Shenandoah University,  Audra L. Gollenberg, PhD: Shenandoah University.

 

IAH, IFOH, ILH, IMVH

1st Place Research Poster.

2018

Effect of Healing Touch on Outcomes in Persons Experiencing Orthopaedic Surgery

Theresa M. Davis, PhD, RN, NE-BC, CHTP1; Mary Ann Friesen, PhD, RN, CPHQ1; Vicki Lindgren, MSN, RN, CNS, CCRN, CCNS2;  Amanda Golino, MSN, RN-BC, CCRN, CCNS3; Robin Jackson, BSHS, MSN, RN-BC, CCRN, CCNS, CHTP4; Jennifer Drake DNP, RN, ONC5; Joanne Gucciardo MS, BSN, RNC, NE-BC6; Lucrezia Mangione, MA, NCC, LCPC,CMT, CHTP/I8; Jennifer Shearer MSN, RN7,

 

IAH, IFMC, IFOH, ILH, IMVH

2nd Place Research Poster.