NRS 410 Evidence-Based Nursing Practice

This course will empower future nurses with essential skills in locating, critically appraising, translating, and contributing to the scholarly foundation of nursing as a discipline. Based in Boyer’s model of scholarship, students will participate in mentored projects that contribute to application, integration, or discovery within nursing theory or practice.

Credits

4 s-h

Prerequisite

NRS 310, NRS 320, NRS 330, NRS 340

Corequisite

NRS 420

Course Types

Nursing

Offered

Summer

1. Compare and contrast types of scholarship that inform nursing practice.
2. Analyze various research designs typically used in health sciences, including quantitative and qualitative approaches.
3. Apply the tenets of evidence-based medicine through critical appraisal.
4. Utilize systematic processes to critically review scholarly work for application to nursing practice.
5. Contribute to a mentored, scholarly project to advance nursing theory or practice.