Knowledge Translation For Transforming Healthcare

Catalog description

This course advances students’ knowledge of implementation and knowledge translation science as it relates to contemporary healthcare policy and delivery. Students examine evidence implementation models and science to design and lead or facilitate efforts to transform nursing practices and healthcare in a variety of contexts. Students develop skills to identify critical issues through diagnostic methods, context assessment and stakeholder analysis and engagement. Based on these analyses, they search, appraise and interpret the best available evidence relevant to the measurement of effectiveness, meaning and impact implementation strategies. They examine strategies for both de-implementation when strategies fail, and for sustainability when strategies work to advance contemporary healthcare and patient outcomes. Prerequisites: NUR 62400 and NUR 64200 and NUR 65600 and NUR 67800. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer. Prerequisite(s): NUR 62400 FOR LEVEL GR WITH MIN. GRADE OF C AND NUR 65600 FOR LEVEL GR WITH MIN. GRADE OF C AND NUR 64200 FOR LEVEL GR WITH MIN. GRADE OF C Course Learning Outcomes 1. Analyze theoretical frameworks aimed at translation and implementation of evidence in complex healthcare systems. 2. Design a plan to engage stakeholders as part of a diagnostic plan to evaluate contemporary problems in healthcare delivery or nursing care. 3. Analyze the best available evidence related to both the target issue and implementation strategies for healthcare change. 4. Integrate the best available evidence, implementation models and evidence based knowledge translation and implementation strategies to design a practice change congruent with the context, stakeholder and diagnostic analyses. 5. Select evaluation strategies that are valid, reliable and sensitive to measure the effectiveness of process change and outcomes. 6. Develop an evidence based plan for sustainability or de-implementation of a practice change based on an analysis of outcome data. 7. Reflect upon the relationship of the practice change with contemporary healthcare policy and economics. View Class Schedule