Background: Best practice warrants the best results which should be a requirement in today’s health care. Evidence-based practice (EBP) is important in healthcare because it ensures that the best practice is the focus for the care that is being delivered. In the academic area it is necessary to educate nursing students about the importance of delivering the best care possible, which will improve all of outcomes. Effective care can be encouraged by coaching students in a Nursing Clinical Skill Boot Camp, which can increase students nurses’ confidence and decrease anxiety. EBP Framework: The John Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice (JHNEBP) Model was selected as a guide for this Capstone Project. The goal of the JHNEBP model is to assure the highest quality of care, which is the ultimate goal of every health care professional. Methods: The primary aim of this capstone project was to develop a system change. This system change would be used to improve overall care that the students give in the clinical area during their preceptorship phase of the nursing program, by increasing the nursing students’ confidence and deceasing the nursing students’ anxiety. A preceptorship is defined as a period of practical experience and training for a student in nursing that is supervised by an expert or specialist in the nursing field. A Nursing Clinical Skills Boot Camp Evaluation was designed to increase studeny nurses’ confidence and decrease student nurses’ anxiety, thus ensuring that nursing students are safe and competent prior to enterin into the clinical area during their preceptorship phase. Pre boot camp and post preceptored clinical experience the participants completed the Primary Care Experience Evaluation and the Student Satisfaction and Self Confidence in Learning surveys. Results: Analysis of the data revealed that the nursing students felt more confident and had a significant decrease in anxiety after attending the Nursing Clinical Skills Boot Camp Evaluation. Conclusion: Scheduling a Nursing Clinical Skills Boot Camp Evaluation is benefical for the private for-profit university’s nursing curriculum. The Nursing Clinical Skills Boot Camp Evaluation prepares the Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing (BSN) students to be successful and confident when the students enter into the last semester of the program. The assumption is that the student nurses’ will give competent nursing care to patients as a result of the increased confidence and decreased anxiety.
