02 Feb Course Reflection
Order Instructions
Please consider how you have developed the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enable your achievement of the Course Goals listed in the syllabus. Then write a minimum of a 1000 word APA-style 7th essay reflecting on how this course has helped you achieve these goals.
Course: DNP810 Evidence-based Practice for Quality Improvement
Evidence-based Practice for Quality Improvement will focus on building foundations of evidenced-based practice in advanced nursing and using those foundations to create quality studies for improving patient care and safety. The course will provide experience in using research concepts such as methodology and design to validate and implement change in professional practice.
Course Goals
By the conclusion of this course, student will be able to:
Critique analytic methods to critically appraise existing literature and other evidence to determine and implement the best evidence for practice.
Design and implement processes to evaluate outcomes of practice, practice patterns, and systems of care within a practice setting, health care organization, or community against national benchmarks to determine variances in practice outcomes and population trends.
Design, direct, and evaluate quality improvement methodologies to promote safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient-centered care.
Apply relevant findings to develop practice guidelines and improve practice and the practice environment.
Apply information technology and research methods appropriately to:
collect appropriate and accurate data to generate evidence for nursing practice
inform and guide the design of databases that generate meaningful evidence for nursing practice
analyze data from practice
design evidence-based interventions
predict and analyze outcomes
examine patterns of behavior and outcomes
identify gaps in evidence for practice
Function as a practice specialist/consultant in collaborative knowledge-generating research.
Disseminate findings from evidence-based practice and research to improve healthcare outcomes.
Source: AACN. (2006). The essentials of doctoral education for advanced nursing practice.
Prerequisites
None
Required Textbook
Doctoral Level Students: For a list of required textbooks and resources, please see your program and course list here: https://www.aspen.edu/doctoral-degrees/
American Psychological Association. (2019). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Author. ISBN: 9781433832185
Course Structure
Module 1: Digital Literacy Skills
Module 2: Ethics of Best Practice
Module 3: Introduction to Best Practice
Module 4: Sampling Methods
Module 5: QUALitative Research for Nursing
Module 6: QUANtitative Research Designs for Nursing Practice
Module 7: Evaluation and Development of Practice Protocols
Module 8: Data Analysis and Statistics
