NUR 6030 - Evaluating Care: Research and Evidence-Based Practice Project Management

• Examine scientific evidence that serves as basis for patient and provider safety in practice
• Describe evidence-based practice, considering components of research evidence, clinical expertise, and patient/family values
• Demonstrate knowledge of health research methods and processes
• Employ health research methods and processes, alone or in partnership, to generate new knowledge for practice
• Translate research to convey the nursing perspective to policy makers and stakeholders in an understandable way
• Role model clinical decision making based on evidence, clinical expertise, and patient/family preferences and values
• Apply the best possible evidence from nursing and other disciplines as foundations for desired patient outcomes, quality nursing practice, and health system organization
• Identify a real-world healthcare problem, with input from relevant stakeholders and subject-matter mentors, that is grounded in population health data, nursing science, and evidence-based practice
• Complete an integrative review of the literature guided by a relevant clinical question and appropriate for potential publication
• Explore techniques to promote and disseminate evidence-based practice decisions in nursing practice

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• EBP Step Zero - Cultivating the spirit of inquiry
  • Explore the IRB process in your organization and how Research/EBP is initiated, evaluated, and approved.
• EBP Step 1 - Ask the clinical question
• EBP Step 2 - Search for the best evidence
• EBP Step 3 - Critically appraise the evidence
  • Critical appraisal of quantitative and qualitative research
• EBP Step 4 - Integrate the evidence with clinical expertise and patient preferences and values
• EBP Step 5 - Evaluate the outcomes of the practice decisions or changes based on evidence
• EBP Step 6 - Disseminate evidence and evidence-based practice implementation outcomes
  • Evaluate scientific journals relevant to the question.
  • Complete review of the literature paper that is suitable for publication.