Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
HEM730EVIDANCE-BASED NURSINGElective352
Level of Course Unit
First Cycle
Objectives of the Course
At the end of this course, students will; It is aimed to comprehend the importance of evidence-based nursing, to know the level of evidence, to reach high-evidence studies, to develop clinical questions, to prepare a scientific review in the form of a poster presentation and to make a poster presentation.
Name of Lecturer(s)
Öğr. Gör. Esra ÖZBUDAK
Learning Outcomes
1To be able to define evidence-based nursing practices and their importance.
2Access to evidence-based nursing research
3Evaluating the evidence levels of evidence-based nursing research
4Ability to reflect evidence-based nursing practice
5Bringing evidence to the literature
6Will be able to create answerable clinical questions
7Ability to evaluate evidence-based guidelines
8will be able to write a scientific review
9will be able to prepare a scientific poster
10Will be able to make a poster presentation
Mode of Delivery
Formal Education
Prerequisites and co-requisities
Non
Recommended Optional Programme Components
Course Contents
In this course, the student will be able to identify and analyze the existing evidence in nursing in line with the literature in the world and in Turkey, to develop an opinion to put this evidence into practice, to observe and analyze the effect of this evidence on the outcome of care in clinics with clinical procedures suitable for evidence-based practice, to analyze the different types of evidence that need to be developed. aims to be able to discuss nursing practices.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1Evidence-based practice and nursing
2Historical development of evidence-based nursing
3Evidence-based practice process
4Nursing model-theories and evidence-based practice
5Barriers to evidence-based practice in nursing
6Evidence-based practice resources and guides
7Types and levels of evidence; randomized controlled trial, case-controlled study, cohort studies, observation, systematic reviews, sources of information
8Types and levels of evidence; randomized controlled trial, case-controlled study, cohort studies, observation, systematic reviews, sources of information
9Selection and use of databases to access evidence-based nursing information (such as MEDLINE, CINAHL, EBN)
10Selection and use of databases to access evidence-based nursing information (such as MEDLINE, CINAHL, EBN)
11Evidence-based nursing practice examples
12Evidence-based nursing practice examples
13Implementation of evidence-based practices in nursing
14Implementation of evidence-based practices in nursing
Recommended or Required Reading
Craig, J, Smyth RL, The evidence-based practice manuel for nurses, Churchill Livingstone, second ed, 2007. Dicenso A, Guyatt G, Ciliska D, Evidence-Based Nursing: A Guide to Clinical Practice, Mosby, 2004. Greenhalgh, T, How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence Based Medicine. 2nd ed. BMJ Books. London, 2001. Lemieux-Charles L, Champagne F, Using knowledge and evidence in health care, University of Toronto, 2004. Muir Gray, J.A, Evidenec-Based Healthcare. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1997 Newell, R, Burnard, P, Research for evidence-based practice, Blackwell pub. 2006. Kelly EK et al. (2005). Evidence-based nursing: making changes in the clinical practice through the collaboration of nursing students and practicingnurses, Applied Nursing Research, 18, 229-231. Larrabee June H “Nurse to Nurse Evidence-Based Practice” Mc Graw Hill Medical, New York, 2008. Melnyk Bernadette, Ellen Fineout-Overholt (Ed) “Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice” : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia,2004. Perry AG, Potter PA. Fundamentals of Nursing, 7th Edition, Mosby, 2009.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Quiz380
Homework120
SUM100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Final Examination1100
SUM100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities60
SUM100
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
Non
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Final Examination111
Quiz313
Report Preparation313
Self Study14228
Individual Study for Final Examination326
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)41
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