Military nurse scholars gather for education and training by military nursing leaders at TSNRP event.

EVENTS

Research & Evidence-Based Practice Dissemination Course

24-26 March 2026 | Baltimore/Washington Metro Area
Call for Presentations is Closed.
Presentation Acceptance Notice: 2 December 2025
Attendee Registration Opens: 3 December 2025

This popular education course for military nurse scholars features keynote lectures by military nursing leaders and nationally known clinical experts. Plus, you gain an opportunity to present the latest operational nursing advancements in nursing science that support readiness, resilience, and warfighter casualty care, whether it's a research study or EBP project. TSNRP Research Interest Groups (RIG)s also hold in-person meetings and presentations.

Keynote speakers include:

Elizabeth Scannell-Desch, PhD, RN, OCNS, FAAN & Mary Ellen Doherty, PhD, CNM, RN
Authors, Nurses in War: Voices from Iraq & Afghanistan
Ronald K. Poropatich, MD, MS
Medical Autonomous Care & Autonomous Movement: Potential Impact on the Battlefield
Center for Military Medicine Research, University of Pittsburg

Evidence-Based Practice Workshop for Military Nursing & Readiness
For Active Duty, Reservists, and National Guard U.S. Military Nurses

By Request (as funds are available)

Understand Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) concepts, and the importance of EBP for operational readiness and nursing care of warfighters in operational settings, and the military health care system. As an attendee, you will identify a problem, apply clinical inquiry, and develop a PICO(T) question. You'll learn how to do a literature search, and how to create an EBP project. The workshop includes a 2-hour pre-course reading assignment, a half-day EBP Coaching Workshop for selected participants, a one-day EBP Workshop for all participants, and three post-course EBP coaching sessions to be completed in the months following the workshop. This event is ideal for CNS/APRNs and healthcare personnel coaching EBP teams.

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Writing Workshop

Check back next Spring for 2026 course dates!

This demanding, 3-day interactive event includes ample writing time, individual critiques, and self-reflective learning, with homework assigned every evening. The dedicated writing time and in-person mentoring is designed for you to complete and submit a:

Manuscript for publication
Clinical Practice Guideline
Grant proposal
Final/technical report
Other scientific product

In addition to the in-person workshop, students are required to review--in advance--training modules located in the TSNRP On Demand Learning Center. Information to access the videos will be sent to all registrants accepted to the workshop. Students will complete an online evaluation and receive CNE credits after full completion of all online and in-person modules. Students who do not fully review the modules, will be ineleigible to attend the in-person workshop. The eight (8) online training modules include:

General Writing Strategies & Journal Selection
Targeting Your Paper to a Specific Audience or Readers
Writing a Publishable Manuscript
Military Publications: Strategies for Success While On Active Duty
Considerations for Publishing in Peer-Reviewed Medical & Nursing Journals
Differentiating & Writing Review Manuscripts
Rejections, Revise, & Resubmit
Using AI in Grant Writing: Enhancing Efficiency, Precision & Success

PleaseNote:

Completion of monthly virtual assignments with an assigned TSNRP mentor is required to attend the in-person module.
Attendance to the Writing Workshop is limited to one time.

Research & Evidence-Based Practice Grant Camp

Check back next Spring for 2026 course dates!

The Research and EBP Grant Camp is designed for novice nurse scientists and graduate nursing students who plan to submit a EBP or research grant application in response to a TSNRP Funding Opportunity Announcement. The goal of Grant Camp is for attendees to produce scientifically sound research or EBP grant application on an operational topic that aligns with the priorities of TSNRP.

Grant Camp features:

A modest amount of didactic content about grantsmanship.
Substantial time to apply the didactic content to continue writing their application on the appropriate grant application forms.
Faculty feedback regarding their grant applications throughout the course.

Attendees must be prepared to spend a significant amount of time, both before and during the course, preparing and writing a grant applications. Given the emphasis on grantsmanship, attendees are expected to arrive with a robust knowledge of:

the research or EBP topic you have chosen,
the research or EBP process,
research/EBP design and methods,
relevant variables and measures, and
data analysis.

Graduate students should have completed some methodology and statistics classes and, ideally, have selected at least the chairperson of their thesis or dissertation committee.

Note: Students applying to attend must complete a proposal outline and provide a letter of support from a commander, chief nurse, or dissertation/thesis chairperson. Note: Mini-EBP applicants are not permitted to attend Grant Camp.