- Department: Health Sciences
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: I
- Academic year of delivery: 2024-25
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.
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Autumn Term 2024-25 |
Students will understand how types of evidence underpin nursing care and practice.
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.
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
Task | % of module mark |
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Oral presentation/seminar/exam | 100 |
Non-compensatable
Task | % of module mark |
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Oral presentation/seminar/exam | 100 |
Written feedback for the summative assessment is provided on the standard proforma, within the timescale specified in the programme handbook.
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/)