Description
Focuses on critical analysis of nursing and healthcare research and their application to nursing practice, education, and/or administration/leadership. Addresses quantitative, qualitative, outcomes, and intervention-based research. Emphasizes research as the foundation for evidence-based practice via strategies to access data, to synthesize data, and to translate research into practice. Examines ethical issues in design, conduct, and utilization of research. Explores relationship between research and nursing care, healthcare policy, quality, safety, and quality improvement. Assesses literature for a select topic.
Prerequisite: 3 credits hours of graduate statistics
Offered: Online