HSCI 860^Evidence Based Practice

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This course introduces practitioners to principles of evidence-based practice (EBP), policy, practice guidelines, and information utilization for practice modeling. Increasingly, health care practitioners are presented with new information about recent findings from research and professional consensus statements regarding best-practices and practice guidelines. This course focuses on preparing students to engage in evidence-based practice, providing the skills needed to critically evaluate new information that is available from research findings and professional consensus statements. Furthermore, the course provides skills for integrating this new information into the students own, personalized approach to practice.