Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are key to providing people-centered equitable healthcare to patients, families, and communities within the Canadian healthcare system. Although there is robust research on developing and integrating PROMs into nursing practice, the nursing education literature is virtually silent. Therefore, integrating knowledge, skills, and attitudes for using and acting on the assessment data provided by PROMs is essential to contemporary nursing education. The aim of this study is to examine an approach to prepare nursing faculty to teach students ways to integrate PROMs and the resultant data into routine clinical care. Using multi-method approach, informed by Implementation Science, we will examine the learning needs (capacity, opportunities, and motivation) of faculty for integrating PROMs into select courses. Based on the needs identified, we will develop and deliver a learning exchange tailored to their needs. In the following term, faculty will integrate select PROMs into at least one course across each of the four years. We will examine the intervention, using questionnaires and 1:1 interviews. The findings from this study will contribute to achieving people-centered equitable healthcare by building competence in future nurses at point-of-care, and potentially in other healthcare provider education.
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