Table 1.

Topics presented in the workshop

Session 1 EBP fundamentals • What is EBP? • The significance of EBP in health care • Required skills for EBP activities • Different resources for EBP • Identification of clinical issues/problems • Translation of a clinical issue/problem into a well-formulated clinical question by using the PICO format • Conduction of online searches • Critical appraisal of research articles by using checklist • Extraction of a general insight from strengths and weaknesses of research studies • Implementation of EBP in the nursing practice

Session 2 Information literacy skills • A brief introduction of hardware • Explanation of operating system, software and electronic files such as PDF and Text • The teaching of types of web browsers and their features • Introduction of databases such as PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL, and SID

Session 3 Information literacy skills • Review of the educational contents of the previous sessions • Teaching of search strategies in databases such as PubMed and Scopus •Explanation of the online database features  ○ The ways to subscribe to and receive free articles  ○ Simple and advanced searches  ○ Limited search (publication date, full-text availability, article type and etc.)  ○ Field search (keywords, MeSH, abstract, and etc.)  ○ Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) • The participants practiced what they learned simultaneously. • Final exercise in a clinical scenario  ○ Introducing a title “Intubate Patient Care”  ○ Searching in the PubMed database with related keywords and providing search results  ○ Answering participants’ questions  ○ Using several keywords and presenting the related articles in this session  ○ Practically using the contents of prior sessions for retrieving scientific evidences  ○ Sending articles obtained by nurses to the professors