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Evidence Based Practice & Quality Improvement - HEA00067C

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  • Department: Health Sciences
  • Credit value: 10 credits
  • Credit level: C
  • Academic year of delivery: 2023-24

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
B Spring Term 2023-24

Module aims

This module equips the students with the skills and knowledge to examine and utilise an evidence based approach within practice.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of the module, students will be able to:

  1. Describe the principles for research and demonstrate how research findings are used to inform evidence based practice.

  2. Outline the importance of responsible research and innovation in improving the quality of patient/client care.

  3. Identify  credible source material in order to construct a focused question and effectively develop search terms to facilitate digital database searching.

  4. Discuss and extract key arguments within credible source material.

Module content

Research methods, innovation, critical appraisal, legal and ethical issues, copyright, GDPR, evidence based practice, quantitative and qualitative research, hierarchy of evidence. 

Indicative assessment

Task % of module mark
Essay/coursework 100

Special assessment rules

Non-compensatable

Indicative reassessment

Task % of module mark
Essay/coursework 100

Module feedback

Written feedback for the summative assessment is provided on the standard proforma, within the timescale specified in the programme handbook.

 

Indicative reading

Ellis, P.(2019) Evidenced Based Practice in Nursing,Sage Publications: Ontario; 

Linsley, Kane and Barker (2019) Evidenced Based Practice for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals 4th Ed, Sage 

Publications:London

Maslen-Prothero, S. (2005). Bailliere's study skills for nurses and midwives. Chapter 4. Edinburgh: Elsevier.

Harvard, L. (2007). How to conduct and effective and valid literature search. Nursing Times, 103(45), 32-33


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