Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice

Catalog description

This course introduces the importance of research into the clinical practice, with an introduction to scholarship that identifies practice issues, and provide the opportunity for students to utilize research findings to improve quality within healthcare. Students will understand EBP strategies for integrating evidence and evaluation of outcomes. Students will be able to apply researchable questions, and review principles of evidence-based practice to ask, acquire, appraise, apply and assess, by reviewing and Implementing EBP within a clinical setting. Students will examine how to use databases to discover evidence and how to apply their knowledge of research methodologies to review literature.