Making sense of evidence-based practice for nursing: an introduction to quantitative and qualitative research and systematic reviews

Abstract

Introduction to research and evidence based practice -- How do you put together a good focused research question? -- How do you search for evidence to answer that question? -- When you've found some evidence how do you know if it's any good? -- Let's talk about the characteristics of a quantitative design -the randomised controlled trial (RCT) -- Some non-randomised quantitative designs -- quasi experiments, cohort studies and case-control studies -- What are effect measures for dichotomous data? -- What are effect measures for continuous data? -- How do you critically appraise quantitative evidence such as RCTs? -- Let's talk about the characteristics of some qualitative designs -phenomenology, ethnography and grounded theory -- How do you critically appraise qualitative evidence such as phenomenology? -- Why we need systematic reviews and initiatives like the Cochrane Library -- Clinical guidelines and implementation of EBP -- Your role in all of this?.