NU 390 - Evidence-Based Nursing Practice

• Complete a review of the literature guided by a PICOT question (Level 3, Critical Thinking)
• Display a pattern of personal accountability for one’s own learning while assuming a professional role through acts of integrity and mutual respect (Level 3, Professional Role)
• Examine the role of the nurse in research and development of evidence-based practice (Level 3, Professional Role)
• Develop skill in accessing knowledge technology through appropriate selection of databases and strategies to search the literature to locate the best evidence (Level 3, Technology)
• Explore techniques to promote evidence-based practice decisions in nursing practice (Level 3, Evidence-based Practice)
• Compare and contrast the purpose and methodologies of quantitative and qualitative research (Level 3, Evidence-based Practice)
• Analyze and disseminate knowledge grounded in nursing science through examination of nursing practice, nursing research, and published literature (Level 3, Evidence-based Practice)

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• Introduction to nursing research and evidence-based practice
• Understanding the research process and ethical Issues in nursing research
• Understanding evidence-based practice
• Searching the literature and developing evidence tables
• Develop a PICO and PEO question to guide an integrative literature review
• Selecting and defining a problem
• Applying appropriate theories and conceptual models 
• Formulating hypotheses and research questions
• Selecting the sample and setting
• Principles of measurement
• Data collection methods 
• Analyzing the data
• Quantitative research design 
• Qualitative research design
• Interpreting and reporting research findings
• Critiquing research as reported in the literature