02 Feb Course Reflection

Order Instructions

Please consider how you have developed the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enable your achievement of the Course Goals listed in the syllabus. Then write a minimum of a 1000 word APA-style 7th essay reflecting on how this course has helped you achieve these goals.

 

Course: DNP810 Evidence-based Practice for Quality Improvement

 

Evidence-based Practice for Quality Improvement will focus on building foundations of evidenced-based practice in advanced nursing and using those foundations to create quality studies for improving patient care and safety. The course will provide experience in using research concepts such as methodology and design to validate and implement change in professional practice.

 

Course Goals

 

By the conclusion of this course, student will be able to:

 

Critique analytic methods to critically appraise existing literature and other evidence to determine and implement the best evidence for practice.

Design and implement processes to evaluate outcomes of practice, practice patterns, and systems of care within a practice setting, health care organization, or community against national benchmarks to determine variances in practice outcomes and population trends.

Design, direct, and evaluate quality improvement methodologies to promote safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient-centered care.

Apply relevant findings to develop practice guidelines and improve practice and the practice environment.

Apply information technology and research methods appropriately to:

collect appropriate and accurate data to generate evidence for nursing practice

inform and guide the design of databases that generate meaningful evidence for nursing practice

analyze data from practice

design evidence-based interventions

predict and analyze outcomes

examine patterns of behavior and outcomes

identify gaps in evidence for practice

Function as a practice specialist/consultant in collaborative knowledge-generating research.

Disseminate findings from evidence-based practice and research to improve healthcare outcomes.

 

Source: AACN. (2006). The essentials of doctoral education for advanced nursing practice.

 

Prerequisites

 

None

 

Required Textbook

 

Doctoral Level Students: For a list of required textbooks and resources, please see your program and course list here: https://www.aspen.edu/doctoral-degrees/

American Psychological Association. (2019). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Author. ISBN: 9781433832185

 

Course Structure

 

Module 1: Digital Literacy Skills

 

Module 2: Ethics of Best Practice

 

Module 3: Introduction to Best Practice

 

Module 4: Sampling Methods

 

Module 5: QUALitative Research for Nursing

 

Module 6: QUANtitative Research Designs for Nursing Practice

 

Module 7: Evaluation and Development of Practice Protocols

 

Module 8: Data Analysis and Statistics