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This module is designed to provide you with some of the skills required to identify challenges relevant to your field of practice, and to understand how research and evidence can be used to address these challenges. Most importantly, in this module you will consider how these key skills apply to your field of nursing, and how you can use research and evidence to inform day-to-day practice (evidence-based practice). You will explore how research and evidence based practice go hand in hand rather than seeing research as an abstract or ‘other’ thing separate from day-to-day work. In the module, we will explore different approaches to research, and how you can use research findings to better inform your nursing practice. To do this we will learn about different types of study, different types of data, and begin to learn about how data can be used and then interpreted to make it meaningful. We will consider qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches to research.

Upon completion of this module you will be able to:
LO1: Using the evidence base, identify and describe a contemporary challenge related to your field of practice.
LO2: Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of different types of research applied to your field of practice.
LO3: Select an appropriate way to answer an applied research question relevant to your field of practice and explain your selection.
LO4: Give examples of how research data can be used to help address contemporary challenges related to your field of practice.
LO5: Make observations about the role of research in informing evidence based practice applied to your field of practice.