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Appraising Research Summaries: Systematic Reviews and Clinical Practice Guidelines

Research summaries, such as systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines, are essential tools for providing evidence-based clinical nursing care. They synthesize the best available evidence, enhance clinical decision-making, standardize care, improve patient safety and outcomes, and support professional development among nurses. By integrating research summaries into their practice, nurses can ensure that their care is based on the most current and reliable evidence, ultimately leading to improved patient outcomes and quality of care.

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

Apply literature search skills and methods to locate Systematic Reviews and current evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (EbCPG) related to your topic from appropriate scholarly databases.
Interpret and critically appraise systematic review results
Use peer reviewed tools & guidelines to critically appraise the research evidence used to develop recommendations of an evidence-based clinical practice guideline (EbCPG)
Distinguish current relevant clinical protocols developed from an EbCPG

Course Learning Outcomes

Patient-Centered Care: Apply concepts of evidence-based practice with regard to nursing specific clinical, educational and leadership practice issues.
Clinical Judgment: Evaluate research findings and apply the findings to the nursing practice environment.
Communication: Generate clinical nursing questions amenable to research, identify gaps in evidence, and disseminate findings that inform practice decisions.
Compassionate Care: Model Model standards of moral, ethical, and legal conduct when providing evidence-based nursing interventions within the practice environment.
Professionalism: Synthesize professional practice standards, organizational policy, and stakeholder interests in development of an evidence based practice implementation plan.

Program Learning Outcomes

Patient-Centered Care: Implement and facilitate learning, learner development, and learner socialization through engagement in interprofessional collaboration, relationship-centered care, and proficiency in communication, while utilizing emerging information and health technologies to access current research and health care data to improve client outcomes.
Clinical Judgment: Implement one's nursing role in ways that fosters and integrates best practices, promotes personal and professional growth, demonstrates leadership, and promotes positive change.
Communication: Analyze underlying disparities in knowledge or evidence; formulate research questions; and systematically evaluate the impact on quality and disseminates evidence-based solutions to nursing problems.
Caring: Develop the educational & leadership skills that are essential for advocating for and influencing policy and organizational systems in the context of facilitating human flourishing for improving client and community health care
outcomes.
Professional Behavior: Demonstrate contribution as a change agent and leader while participating in scholarship, engaging in the educational and leadership environment, pursuing continuous quality improvement, and participating in course design, program evaluation, and assessment/evaluation strategies.

Competencies

AACN Essentials - Advanced Level

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Quality and Safety Education for Nurses - Graduate

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American Organization for Nursing Leadership - CNML

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National League for Nursing - CNE

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Appraising Research Summaries: Systematic Reviews and Clinical Practice Guidelines

Course Learning Outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes

Competencies

Time Management