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Monday, 18 November 2013
Learning Objective 1: The learner will be able to discuss a creative method for incorporating evidence-based practice into a community health course.
Learning Objective 2: The learner will be to describe the process of implementing a community assessment project in order to maximize students' understanding of EBP.
Undergraduate nursing students often find the language and methods of research unfamiliar and unsettling and struggle to grasp how and why research informs professional nursing practice. Although the baccalaureate nursing curriculum includes a research or evidence-based practice (EBP) course, most students still have difficulty understanding research and its applications to nursing practice based on the theory content alone. In this era of evidence-based practice, it is essential that nurse educators find a way to incorporate EBP throughout the curriculum. In order to ensure that graduates are competent in sourcing, critiquing, and applying research in all health care settings, educators must incorporate evidenced based practice into activities that engage the student in the process. Due to increasing disease rates and limited funding, it is imperative that undergraduate nursing students understand the importance of utilizing research and implementing evidence-based interventions in order to improve the population’s health. This presentation will focus on how faculty of the undergraduate Community Health course at one Southeastern University reinvented a community assessment assignment to strengthen students’ understanding of research theory and methodology. Empowering the students to synthesize evidence-based data and develop appropriate community-based interventions has been an effective way of increasing students’ understanding of the research process and its application to nursing practice.
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