2nd Edition
Making Sense of Evidence-based Practice for Nursing An Introduction to Quantitative and Qualitative Research and Systematic Reviews
1. Introduction to research and evidence based practice
Step 1: Pose a focused research question
2. How do you put together a good focused research question?
Step 2: Search for the evidence
3. How do you search for evidence to answer that question?
Step 3: Critically appreaise the evidence
4. When you have found some evidence how do you know if it’s any good?
5. Let’s talk about the characteristics of a quantitative design – the randomised controlled trial
6. Some non-randomised quantitative designs – quasi experiments, cohort studies and case-control studies
7. What are effect measures for dichotomous outcomes?
8. What are effect measures for continuous outcomes?
9. How do you critically appraise quantitative evidence such as RCTs?
10. Let’s talk about characteristics of some qualitative designs – phenomenology, ethnography and grounded theory
11. How do you critically appraise qualitative evidence?
Step 4: Making a decision to implement the evidence
12. Why we need systematic reviews and initiatives like the Cochrane Library
13. Clinical guidelines
14. Implementation – how do you meet your practice goals?
15. How to meet your learner goals and pass research assignments and dissertations
16. Your role in all of this?
Biography
Debra Evans is a senior lecturer at Birmingham City University, UK.
