Evidence Based Healthcare (online)
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| NURS3124 | Nursing | 3 | 20 | Autumn UK, Spring UK, Summer UK |
- Code
- NURS3124
- School
- Nursing
- Level
- 3
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Autumn UK, Spring UK, Summer UK
Summary
• Enhancing skills in the critical analysis, evaluation and application of evidence relating to specific practices.
• Reflectively assessing the suitability and relevance of evidence from other areas of practice that might be transferred.
• Recognising the strengths and limitations of the evidence reviewed, including the analysis and representation of findings.
• Making recommendations about the changes in practice based on a critical evaluation of the evidence, with balanced reflections on the obstacles to evidence-based healthcare.
• Accessing evidence efficiently using healthcare databases, and the evaluation of other online sources for the quality of evidence they hold.
• The major research paradigms - qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods studies.
• The value of evidence from audit and other quality improvement efforts in practice examining how they contribute to applying evidence-based healthcare.
• Working with evidence from systematic reviews of the evidence.
• Issues in the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, and the use of alternative approaches to the presentation and interpretation of inferential data, critique of different types of evidence;
• Ethical issues in relation to research and audit studies and the general design considerations of research or audit projects.
Target Students
Registered healthcare professionals.
Classes
- One 7-hour lecture each week for 8 weeks
Assessment
- 100% Exam 1 (2-hour): 2 hour exam comprising of single best response and short written answers.
Assessed by end of designated period
Educational Aims
To retrieve and critically evaluate a range of evidence relevant to clinical practice, and prepare a report with recommendations based upon appropriate evidence identified for the benefit of patients and clients.Learning Outcomes
Discriminate critically between different types and quality of evidence for practice; critically differentiating between the characteristics of evidence produced by qualitative, mixed method, quantitative research, and quality improvement reports.
Define and apply the key terms and universal skills required for accessing and evaluating evidence for practice.
Develop a critical understanding of the accessing, collating, evaluating and summarising evidence for practice, reflecting different international priorities.
Develop a critical understanding of the processes of developing evidence for practice and the central role of context in implementing evidence-based practice, including the role of clinical expertise and the appropriate consideration of cost effectiveness.
Acknowledge the significance of people’s care preferences internationally and the value of the co-production of evidence and the implementation of evidence as part of an ethical approach to evidence based healthcare.
Conveners
- Mr David Pinnock