Background: Evidence-based practice (EBP) is the appropriate approach to guide healthcare personnel in their clinical practice. Despite the importance of EBP, undergraduate nursing students are not very much engaged and have a lack of knowledge and skills. Aim: The aim of this study was to gather, assess and synthesize evidence on educational interventions promoting evidence-based practice competencies in traditional undergraduate nursing students. Methods: This is a scoping review on sixteen English and non-English databases. A data extraction form was established including authors, year of publication, country, types of participant, specific objectives, study design, educational intervention, comparison if existed, and outcomes of significance. Results: The search strategy retrieved 8901 records in total. After screening for duplicates and eligibility, 20 articles were included in the qualitative synthesis. Improvement in EBP domains such as knowledge, skills, attitudes/behaviours, EBP beliefs, use, practice, level of evidence, critical thinking and future use of EBP were mentioned and assessed in different studies. Conclusions: EBP training can improve nursing students' capacity in healthcare provision. Teaching EBP competencies along undergraduate nursing curricula should be a high priority at nursing programmes. The use of innovative approaches seems to be more effective than traditional ways. Education of EBP increases its future use and critical thinking and EBP programs improve self-efficacy and the level of evidence utilization.

Angela Boškin Faculty of Health Care Spodnji Plavž 3 4270 Jesenice Slovenija

Clinic of Social and Family Medicine School of Medicine University of Crete 70013 Crete Greece

Degree Course in Nursing University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Seat of Reggio Emilia 42123 Reggio Emilia Italy

Department of Education and Research in Health Sciences Faculty of Health Sciences Medical University of Warsaw 02 091 Warsaw Poland

Department of Health Care Faculty of Public Health University of Vlora 9401 Vlora Albania

Department of Nursing and Midwifery Faculty of Medicine University of Ostrava 703 00 Ostrava Czech Republic

Department of Nursing Faculty of Health Sciences Hellenic Mediterranean University 71414 Crete Greece

Faculty of Nursing University of Murcia Campus de Espinardo 30100 Murcia Spain

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