To systematically retrieve,analyze,and summarize domestic and international tools for assessing nurses' evidence-based practice competence,and to integrate their psychometric properties,so as to provide references for developing more scientific and practical assessment tools in the future.

A systematic search was conducted in CNKI, Wanfang Data,VIP,CBM,PubMed,Cochrane Library,EMbase,and Web of Science for literature on nurses' evidence-based practice competence assessment tools from the inception of each database to April 1,2026.The included literature was integrated and analyzed.

A total of 27 articles were included.The assessment content covered nurses' attitudes,knowledge,perceptions,self-efficacy,and critical thinking regarding evidence-based practice;continuous quality improvement,nurse managers' leadership,and compatibility of evidence-based practice with professional work;barriers to and facilitators of searching for and reviewing evidence,barriers to and facilitators of changing practice based on evidence,practices for improvement,and abilities to generate,synthesize,disseminate,and evaluate evidence;and abilities to apply evidence and evaluate outcomes.Psychometric results showed that the included tools had good reliability and validity.

Existing tools for assessing nurses' evidence-based practice competence have comprehensive dimensions and generally good reliability and validity.However,issues remain,including an overemphasis on theoretical content,a lack of unified standards for result interpretation,and insufficient cross-cultural applicability. Further optimization is needed to enhance the scientific rigor,practicality,and comparability of these tools.