Evidence-based practice and health information management (5 cr)

Objective

• You understand the role of the nursing management in the development and promote of evidence based practice.
• You are able to examine the factors inhibiting the development of evidence based practice.
• You are able to implement evidence based practice.
• You are able to ensure evidence based practice.
• You are able to assess the implementation and results of evidence based practice.

Content

• What is the role of the nursing manager in development and promoting of evidence practice?
• What are the factors inhibiting the development of evidence based practice?
• How do you implement evidence based practice?
• How do you assess the implementation and results of evidence based practice?
• How do you use information in decision making and management?

Course material

The literature will be given at the first lesson.

Study forms and methods

Scheduled track:
Contact learning (class room teaching) days are 20th August, 16th September and 15th October. The contact learning days includes two individual, written pre-assignments; for 16th Semptember and 15th October. The tasks are related to evidence-based nursing and can be implement to your own work or in other organization of nursing. The first assignment will be given 20th August and another 16th September and they should be attached to moodle 3 days before contact learning day. The class room teaching includes teaching lessons, small group working, discussions and information search and for that you will need lap top.
In addition, one individual, written assignment that will be evaluated.

Student workload

Contact learning 24 hours.
Pre-assignments and another written task 70 h.
Familiarizing with literature.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

The pre-assignments and the individual, written task will be evaluated.