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PD2: Professional Development in Nursing: Evidence Based Nursing for Practice - HEA00173I

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  • Department: Health Sciences
  • Credit value: 20 credits
  • Credit level: I
  • Academic year of delivery: 2024-25

Module summary

Clinical decisions based on evidence are essential to nursing and healthcare practice. In this module you will explore how evidenced based decision making is demonstrated in practice.

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Autumn Term 2024-25

Module aims

Students will understand how types of evidence underpin nursing care and practice.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of the module, students will be able to:
1. Examine how uncertainty in healthcare can be resolved through understanding how different types
of information inform evidence based nursing practice.
2. Demonstrate the ability to assess methodological limitations of a range of research
approaches.

3. Demonstrate the ability to use research to help inform decision making.
4. Understand a range of factors which can influence decision making in nursing practice.

Module content

E&D / Ethical dilemmas / Disease (incidence, RR, OR) ,Rituals of nursing / E&D / Accountability
/ Clinical decision making / Person-centered care/E&D Resource / rationing
Ethical dilemmas / Disease (incidence, RR, OR) / Accountability / Reflection / Team working
EBN – Educating others

Indicative assessment

Task % of module mark
Oral presentation/seminar/exam 100

Special assessment rules

Non-compensatable

Indicative reassessment

Task % of module mark
Oral presentation/seminar/exam 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

Craig, J. & Dowding, D. (Eds.). (2019). Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing. 4th edition. London: Elsevier
Ellis, P. (2019) Evidence Based Practice for Nursing. 4th Edition. London: SAGE
Ellis, P. (2019) Understanding Research for Nursing Students. 4th Edition. London: SAGE Gerrish, K. &
Lathlean, J. (Eds.). (2015) The Research Process in Nursing. 7th edition. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell Evidence
Based Nursing (Journal: https://ebn.bmj.com/)


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