Evidence-Based Physical Examination

Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, Ph.D., APRN-CNP, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN is the Vice President for Health Promotion, University Chief Wellness Officer, and Professor and Dean of the College of Nursing at The Ohio State University. She also is a Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at Ohio State's College of Medicine. In addition, she is the Executive Director of the Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare. Dr. Melnyk earned her bachelor of science in nursing degree from West Virginia University, her master of science degree with a specialization in nursing care of children and pediatric nurse practitioner from the University of Pittsburgh, and her PhD in clinical research from the University of Rochester, where she also completed her post-master's certificate as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. She is a nationally/internationally recognized expert in evidence-based practice, intervention research, child and adolescent mental health, and health and wellness, and is a frequent keynote speaker at national and international conferences on these topics. Dr. Melnyk has consulted with hundreds of healthcare systems and colleges throughout the nation and globe on how to improve quality of care and patient outcomes through implementing and sustaining evidence-based practice. Her record includes over $33 million of sponsored funding from federal agencies and foundations as principal investigator and over 390 publications. Dr. Melnyk is coeditor of six other books, including Implementing the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Competencies in Healthcare: A Practical Guide for Improving Quality, Safety, and Outcomes; Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice (Fourth Edition), an American Journal of Nursing Research Book of the Year Award winner; Implementing EBP: Real World Success Stories; A Practical Guide to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Screening, Early Intervention and Health Promotion (Second Edition); Intervention Research and Evidence-Based Quality Improvement: Designing, Conducting, Analyzing and Funding (Second Edition), also an American Journal of Nursing Research Book of the Year Award winner, and Evidence-Based Health and Well-Being Assessment. A Guide to Best Practice. Dr. Melnyk is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Nursing, the National Academies of Practice, and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. She served a 4-year term on the 16-member United States Preventive Services Task Force and the National Institutes of Health's National Advisory Council for Nursing Research and was a board member of the National Guideline Clearinghouse and the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NGC/NQMC). She currently serves as a member of the National Quality Forum's (NQF) Behavioral Health Standing Committee. Dr. Melnyk also serves as editor of the journal Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine's Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience as well as an elected board member for the National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention. Dr. Melnyk has received numerous national and international awards, including the Audrey Hepburn Award; Mary Tolle Wright Excellence in Leadership Award; and the International Nursing Research Hall of Fame Award from Sigma Theta Tau International; the Jessie Scott Award from the American Nurses Association for the improvement of healthcare quality through the integration of research, education and practice; the 2012 Midwest Nursing Research Society Senior Scientist award; the NIH/National Institute of Nursing Research's inaugural director's lectureship award; the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) Sharp Cutting Edge Award, and the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties Lifetime Achievement Award. She has been recognized as an Edge Runner three times by the American Academy of Nursing for founding and directing the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners' KySS child and adolescent mental health program, her Creating Opportunities for Personal Empowerment (COPE) program for parents of critically ill children and preterm infants, and her COPE cognitive behavioral skills-building program for depressed and anxious children, teens, and college students, which is being implemented in 44 states throughout the United States and five countries. She is also the founder of two companies that disseminate her evidence-based intervention programs. Dr. Melnyk founded the National Interprofessional Education and Practice Collaborative to advance the Department of Health and Human Services' Million Hearts® initiative to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes, which is a collaboration of over 150 organizations and academic institutions across the United States. She also created and chaired the first three National Summits on Building Healthy Academic Communities and is the founder and the current President of the National Consortium for Building Healthy Academic Communities, a collaborative organization to improve population health in the nation's institutions of higher learning, and also served as its first president.