Implementing Evidence for Practice (NURS90070)

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this subject, students should be able to:

• Demonstrate advanced knowledge and skills in critically appraising research using relevant appraisal frameworks
• Describe the role of evidence-based practice resources to inform clinicians' healthcare decisions
• Identify frameworks to equip clinicians to utilise research evidence into their clinical practice
• Identify potential enablers and barriers in implementing research evidence into clinical practice
• Formulate appropriate strategies to implement evidence into practice
• Describe organisational processes for implementing and monitoring best practice in the healthcare context
• Demonstrate verbal communication skills to effectively promote evidence-based clinical practice to key interdisciplinary stakeholders.

Generic skills

• Highly developed cognitive, analytic and problem-solving skills in the discipline area, characterised by flexibility of approach;
• The ability and self-confidence to comprehend complex concepts, to express them lucidly, whether orally or in writing, and to confront unfamiliar problems;
• Where appropriate, advanced working skills in the application of computer systems and software and a receptiveness to the opportunities offered by new technologies;
• An ability to evaluate and synthesise the research and professional literature in the discipline;
• Advanced skills and techniques applicable to the discipline;
• Advanced competencies in areas of professional expertise and/or scholarship;
• The capacity for independent critical thought, rational inquiry and self-directed learning;