Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Health Care

Master of Science In Nursing Program

NRS 541


Breyer State University
Instructor: EM Garcia, RN, MSN, DNS

SYLLABUS

COURSE OVERVIEW: Welcome to the Master of Science in Nursing! You elected to major in Emergency and Trauma Nursing. This track will equip you with advanced knowledge to prepare you to embark the challenges of health care delivery systems. The MSN - Emergency and Trauma Nursing track will prepare its graduates to provide specialized care to critically ill and injured patients in the emergency and trauma departments and/or trauma care units.

Time is truly an important factor in the care of emergency and trauma patients. Therefore, this specialty track is designed to assist students to exercise critical thinking skills to anticipate patient's immediate needs and demands in the emergent and critical phases of patient's clinical course.

The acuity and complexity of nursing practice in diverse settings continue to grow. As a result, Emergency and Trauma Nurses are faced with challenges of varying degrees, from practice issues and health care system delivery intricacies. To effectively and adequately prepare a confident and competent Nurse or Nurse Specialist, the Emergency and Trauma Nursing track will focus on the comprehensive requirements and understanding of health care environment and patients who seek assistance in the emergency and trauma services.

Essential practice patterns in emergency and trauma, integrates clinical and non-clinical practitioners to deliver appropriate, efficient, and effective care to health care consumers. I expect to broaden your knowledge and strengthen your aptitude and competency in emergency and trauma nursing.

The complexities of the health care delivery system challenge the nursing profession to adapt to its demands. And to be successful in that endeavor, a nurse must acquire a broad knowledge in nursing leadership and management. A Nurse Leader has to be competent to tackle issues in nursing services and the associated interdisciplinary functions and generate productive results. A Nurse Leader beginner or not, is faced with convoluted concerns from various areas of patient care and management. From staffing issues to provision of care, treatment, and services problems, conflict resolutions, assessment and evaluation of competencies, needs assessment, performance appraisals, and so on. This course will enable you to demonstrate effective strategic assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care system and the disciplines that interact with nursing service.

Evidence-based practice in nursing and healthcare is evidently the basis of progress and development in provision of care, treatment, and services. Researchers are diligently working to provide us with current scientific and technological knowledge to be able to provide care to our patients appropriately, efficiently, and cost-effectively.

Nursing provides continuous monitoring of patient condition. Therefore, it is imperative for us to keep current in trends and issues related to our profession. Evidence-based practice in nursing and healthcare grants us the ability to recognize and understand concurrent demands and needs of our patients.

TIME FRAME: This course will grant you six (6) semester hours. You are given ten (10) weeks to complete all requirements of the course. The initial date of study is the day you register for the course, or the date you notified me that your textbook has arrived. An extension is granted through a letter of excuse addressed to me.

TEXTBOOK: This is the required textbook for this course.

Book 1: Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare. Kathy Malloch, PhD, MBA, RN/Tim Porter-O'Grady, EdD, PhD. Jones and Bartett Publishers. 2006: ISBN # 0763729132.

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ACADEMIC METHODS OF LEARNING EVALUATION:

Assignment(s)s/Term Paper(s):

You will be given a total of eight (8) assignments for this course. You must utilize APA format, one-inch margins and double-spaced in completing these requirement(s). You are to submit your assignments via electronic mail or standard (post office, etc.) mail. For coursework, please click on the link "Assignments".

Web-based Examination:

You will be given one (1) comprehensive examination to complete this course. The examination comprises of multiple choice-type examination, and true or false-type examination. You are given three (3) hours to complete the examination.

If you are ready to take the examination, you must notify the faculty of this course to grant you official access to the examination. You may access the exam only once. You will need your student identification/number and password to begin the examination.

Interactive Discussion:

We will meet for an interactive discussion through Breyer State University 's Chat Room. Your participation and response will be graded. In this session, we will discuss challenges of your practice. A scheduled date and time will be arranged.

GRADING:  

90-100%    = A
80-89%      = B
70-79%      = C
Below 70% = Fail

COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

1). Understand the foundations of evidence-based practice and its latest trend and influence in health care and nursing.
2). Identify and analyze issues surrounding provision of care, treatment, and services utilizing decision-making skills through evidence-based practice.
3). Provide guidance to future leaders on judgments and best decisions through evidences.
4). Comprehend and examine evidences that affect the internal and external activities of organizations.
5). Focus on the goals and needs of today's health care leaders.

COURSE CONTENT:

1). A New Age for Practice: Creating the Framework for Evidence.
2). A Framework for Nursing Clinical Inquiry: Pathway Toward Evidenced-Based Nursing.
3). From Nursing Process to Nursing Synthesis: Evidence-Based Nursing Education.
4). Linking Structure and Healing: Building Architecture for Evidence.
5). Living Evidence: Translating Research into Practice.
6). The Journey to Evidence: Managing the Information Infrastructure.
7). Managing Variance Through an Evidence-Based Framework for Safe and Reliable Health Care.
8). Partnership Economics: Evidence Based Value Through Workload Management.
9). Policy and Practice: Legislating for Evidence (scope, advanced practice, error data banks).
10). Creating Nursing System Excellence Through the Forces of Magnetism: Integrating Expertise, Best Practices and Research Evidence.

INFORMATION: If you have any questions regarding this program, you may address them to adm@breyerstate.com. An administrative faculty member will respond to all questions.

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