SCHOLARSHIP FOR EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE

NURSING 806

Evaluate collective evidence and apply it, as appropriate, as a basis for improving nursing practice, health care, and healthcare outcomes.

NURSING 435

Designed to develop skills in using evidence to improve nursing practice. Learn strategies to evaluate the quality of evidence and effectively integrate evidence into nursing practice. Learn how practice guidelines are developed, interpreted, and implemented in complex care settings. Learn the significance of engaging partners in evidence-based practice and identify processes to partner with others.

NURSING 444

Expand understanding of core nursing competencies such as safe therapeutic care and health informatics by examining how these concepts operate at a systems-level to influence care and outcomes. Focus is given to emergency preparedness as enacted in a variety of systems. Key conceptual elements of the healthcare system, organization, policy, financing and law, and quality improvement and their impact on care and outcomes are examined. Expand your understanding of scholarship and evidence-based practice by delving into the process of nursing research.

OCCTHER 771

Provides the opportunity to establish or advance understanding of evidence-based practice through critical exploration of research ethics and approaches. Critically review literature relevant to occupational therapy and determine how research findings can inform practice. First in the evidence-based practice sequence leading to the development of a proposal and completion of a scholarly study.

CNP 446

Introduces the concept of evidence-based practice, the importance of evidence to improve clinical practice, strategies to evaluate the quality of evidence, and how to design an evidence-based project.