NURS20167 - Evidence-Based Practice Nursing

General Information

Unit Synopsis

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

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 9
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 1
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).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

Term 3 - 2024 Profile
Online
Term 3 - 2025 Profile
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).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Portfolio 50%
2. Literature Review or Systematic Review 50%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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Previous Feedback

Term 3 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 50% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: SUTE Teacher Evaluations
Feedback
Best teacher ever. Very, very supportive and motivated
Recommendation
Continue to demonstrate a positive attitude and supportive approach to my teaching.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE Teacher Evaluations
Feedback
Thank you so much for the support and encouragement
Recommendation
Continue to demonstrate a student focus approach that includes encouraging students.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE Course Comments
Feedback
Course coordinators were very supportive with the course
Recommendation
Continue to demonstrate a student-focused approach that includes including the Head of Course (HOC) to 'drop in' to listen to student presentations when available. This approach demonstrates to students a collegial approach with the unit coordinator and HOC but also shows the HOCs invested interest in their research and progression of their degree.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source:
Feedback
Recommendation
'no data available for analysis’
Action Taken
Remind and encourage students of the importance of completing end-of-term unit evaluations for each term.
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Construct a literature review research question to explore an area of interest or clinical practice gap in your professional practice context.
  2. Develop and justify a literature review strategy to critically examine your literature review research question.
  3. Conduct a literature search using appropriate methods, databases, and search engines to answer your research question.
  4. Critique and synthesise the literature, analyse the quality of evidence, and identify the limitations of the evidence in the context of your literature review research question.

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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4
1 - Portfolio • • • •
2 - Literature Review or Systematic Review • • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4
1 - Knowledge • • • •
2 - Communication • • • •
3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills • •
4 - Research • •
5 - Self-management • •
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility • • • •
7 - Leadership •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8