Describe evidence-based practice (EBP) and its relationship to nursing research,
nursing practice, and healthcare.
(Domain – Educative Practice, Evidence-informed Practice,‘Process – Scholarship,
Patient Safety)
2. Articulate and discuss the importance of research in advanced nursing practice.
(Domain – Evidence-informed
Practice; Process – Scholarship, Patient Safety)
3. Discuss the evolution of research and measurement in the advanced practice
clinical setting. (Domain – Educative
Practice, Evidence-informed Practice; Process – Scholarship)
4. Differentiate between common assumptions and types of quantitative and
qualitative research (Domain – Evidence-
infonned Practice; Process – Scholarship, Patient Safety)
5. Differentiate between the steps of the quantitative and qualitative research
process implemented in different types of published quantitative and qualitative
studies. (Domain Evidence-informed Practice; Process – Scholarship)
6. Describe the philosophical perspective of qualitative research. (Domain –
Evidence-informed Practice; Process – Scholarship)
7. Describe how epistemology directs research questions and the collection and
interpretation of data in quantitative and qualitative research. {Domain –
Evidence-informed Practice; Process – Schoiarship, Patient Safety)
8. Explore the research processes for conducting phenomenology, grounded theory,
ethnography, historical research, and exploratory descriptive qualitative research.
(Domain – Evidence-infonned Practice; Process – Scholarship)
Requiredmssigned Reading
Grove, S.K., Burns, N. & Gray, J. (2013). The Practice of Nursing Research:
Appraisal, synthesis and generation of
evidence. 7″‘ edition. St Louis, Missouri. (Read Chapters 2, 3 & 4)
Clarke, A. (2013). From the ground up. Canadian Nurse, 109
(5). 20-24.
DiCenso, A. (2003). Evidence-based nursing practice: How to get there from here.
Nursing Leadership, 16(4), 20-26.
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Smith, R. (2010). Advanced practice nursing in Canada: Overview of a decision
support synthesis. Nursing
Leadership, 23(Special issue), 15-24.
Gerrish, K., Nolan, M., McDonnell, A., Tod, A., Kirshbaum, M., Guillaume, L.
(2012). Factors influencing advanced
practice nurses‘ ability to promote evidence-based practice among frontline nurses.
Worldviews in Evidence Based
Nursing, 9(1), 30-39. doi:10.1111i’j.17416787.2011.00230.x.
Enrichment Resources
DiCenso, A., & Bryant-Lukosius, D. (2010). Clinical Nurse Specialists and Nurse
Practitioners in Canada: A Decision
Support Synthesis. Retrieved from http:i’lwww.cfhifcass.ca!
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