2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

NU 365 Evidence Based Nursing Practice

This course prepares students to discover, examine, and critically appraise current evidence in nursing and healthcare. Students will develop skills needed to identify research questions in practice, analyze existing evidence, and develop strategies to integrate best current research with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values. Parameters for making a recommendation for an evidence-based practice change that enhances safety and promotes quality improvement will be discussed. Students will be given the opportunity to demonstrate skills in gathering data from a variety of sources using appropriate databases to find best current evidence.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Prerequisite NU 300 Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing & NU 330 Care of the Childbearing Family