NU501 - Scholarship and Research Methods

The purpose of this course is designed to further develop the student’s clinical decision-making process in a manner that integrates clinical experience, patient values, and the best available evidence to resolve practice issues and improve practice and outcomes. The course will cover topics related to the evidence-based practice process, framing clinical questions to enhance clinical decision-making, searching the literature, critical appraisal, integration, and evaluation of the evidence, grading levels of evidence and strength of recommendations, patient values, and statistical terminology related to evidence-based practice.