Applied Nursing Research

Catalog description

This course introduces the importance of research within the role of professional nursing practice. With a focus of how research can improve clinical practice, by reviewing, analyzing, collecting data, and interpreting research for nursing practice. The emphasis is to teach evidence-based practice (EBP) skills that will help the student to evaluate the existing clinical practice with literature to improve patient care. Evidence collected with research can support research findings to implement and sustain evidence-based practice for integrating evidence-based clinical practice changes specific to improve patient care.