PALL8432 Understanding Literature for Evidence-Based Practice

Dr Caroline Phelan

2017

4.5

4 x 1-hour tutorials per semester
1 x 8-hour independent study weekly
1 x 1-hour on-line exercises weekly

Knowledge and understanding of the use of literature and familiarity with the use of Ovid Medline, CHINAL, Pubmed, OR Embase. Student must be able to operate at post-graduate level in terms of sourcing, analysing, critiquing, writing and referencing.

Available to postgrduate students only

Assignments; Online or Face to Face Tutorial Participaiton; Self Reflection

This topic focuses on the knowledge and use of professional literature. Students will be introduced to concepts that underlie evidence and as a result 'evidence- based practice' will be demystified.

This topic aims to

Introduce principles and considerations of evidence-based practice in palliative care and applied gerontology
Understand the role of literature in evidence-based practice
Develop skills and increase confidence in dealing with evidence
De-mystify the notion and understand the potential of evidence-based practice

At the completion of this topic students will have:

presented different arguments and concepts of the nature of evidence
outlined a search approach to retrieve literature and relevant evidence in a topic of interest
recognised the role of evidence-based practice in relation to change (knowledge translation and implementation) for the individual practitioner, his/her team, service or organisational system
demonstrated skills in critical appraisal and understand the process of appraising in terms of relevance, applicability, strength of evidence in relation to the question (the impetus for the search)
determined why evidence-based practice makes a difference in students' clinical setting
compiled a suite of resources in evidence-based practice to enable life-long learning

Key dates and timetable

Timetable details for 2017 are no longer published.

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