Evidence Based Practice I

Catalog description

This course is the first in a three-part Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) sequence designed to provide a foundational framework for understanding and applying EBP in the health sciences, covering the steps of the EBP process and strategies for implementation in diverse practice settings. Students will examine the philosophical, theoretical, and ethical foundations of evidence-based research and are introduced to health research methods. Emphasis is placed on the Ask and Acquire phases of the EBP cycle. Students learn to formulate clinically relevant research questions, conduct systematic and reproducible literature searches, document search and screening processes, extract and summarize key study characteristics, and organize evidence for later appraisal. This course establishes the foundation for appraisal and synthesis in EBP II and application and dissemination in EBP III.