All Course Assignments for Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, and week 6.
This is an overview of some topics covered by this course.
- Understand the importance of evidence-based practices in healthcare
- The steps in the Evidence-Based Practice Process
- Formulating clinical queries and identifying key terms
- Finding and evaluating evidence sources, such as research studies, systematic reviews and clinical guidelines
- Understanding the research design and method, quantitative as well as qualitative
- Research evidence is critically appraised and its applicability and relevance in clinical practice are assessed.
- Evaluation of the effectiveness and implementation of evidence-based interventions
- Ethics and law in Evidence-Based Practice
- Developing your skills in database management and citation of references using APA format.
Your question suggests that this course will include hands-on experience in searching for and evaluating evidence of research using online databases. These reading assignments could involve evaluating research evidence and synthesising it from articles. Research article reviews may include analyzing an intervention or treatment based on research evidence.