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NURS20167 Evidence-Based Practice Nursing

Evidence-Based Practice Nursing

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General Information

Overview

This unit will provide you with the theoretical and practical knowledge required to critically analyse and interpret evidence-based practice in nursing research. You will identify an area of interest from your professional practice setting and develop a research question. Using this research question, you will develop a search strategy followed by the retrieval, critical examination, evaluation, synthesis and cataloguing of the selected literature to develop a literature. The research question and literature review developed in this unit will will facilitate the development of a quality improvement research project which will be undertaken in future units including NURS20168, NURS20173, and NURS20174.

Details

Career Level: Postgraduate

Unit Level: Level 9

Credit Points: 6

Student Contribution Band: 7

Fraction of Full-Time Student Load: 0.125

Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Students must be enrolled in CL22 Master of Clinical Nursing to undertake this unit.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

Offerings For Term 3 - 2024

Online

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).