NU 750 Clinical Scholarship & Analytical Methods for Evidence-Based Practice
This course will introduce graduate students to doctoral nursing scholarship. Scholarship involves the translation and synthesis of research findings and their application into clinical or organizational practice, affecting and influencing specific outcomes. Scholarship includes the integration and dissemination of new knowledge. This course will prepare the doctoral student to evaluate the most current and highest levels of evidence-evidence that is designed to improve clinical or organizational outcomes related to an identified topic of interest-and to translate the evidence into individual practice environments. This course will use analytic methods to critically appraise the evidence from a variety of sources. Based on these analyses the doctoral student will be given the tools to evaluate a randomized control trial, a meta-analysis, and a review of clinical practice guidelines. This course will review the dissemination of knowledge and will include discussion on grant application submission. This course will provide the foundation to support the doctor of nursing practice project.