Overview
Description
Critical analysis and synthesis of the literature and available data to determine and implement evidence-based science into healthcare practice.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Admission to DNP program.
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Admission to DNP program.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Restrictions
Admission to DNP program.
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- use appropriate technology to identify important sets of empirical literature and synthesize these findings to determing their relevance for enhancing the scientific basis of nursing practice.
- use science-based theories and concepts to determing the nature and significance of health and health care delivery phenomena.
- evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of common databases and collection methods.
- decide upon the most effective, efficient, and least costly ways to secure data.
- disseminate findings from evidence-based practice and research to improve healthcare outcomes.
- describe actions and advanced strategies to enhance, alleviate, and ameliorate health and healthcare delivery and evaluate outcomes.
- evaluate new practice approaches based on nursing theories and theories from other disciplines.
- analyze GIS, epidemiological, biostatistical, environmental, and other appropriate scientific data related to individual, aggregate, and population health.
- recognize the limitations of data in decision-making at the organizational and public policy levels and plan for the most effective use of data in program initiation and evaluation.