NURS 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Critical Inquiry, Knowledge Translation
11 Jan 2020
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Responsibility & accountability question inconsistent policies and procedures with therapeutic client outcomes questions best practices questions safety standards. Clinical experience that may not be generalizable. Assembled information: descriptive pre-existing data that does not tell you what to do to make things better. Disciplined research : best method of acquiring knowledge. Nursing research: systemic inquiry designed to develop trustworthy evidence about issues important to nurses and their clients increasing expectations to understand and undertake research and to based practice on evidence from research. Use the best evidence (not practices, habits and opinions) Ill structured problems: problems to which a solution is not given as they are characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity and change. Evidence informed practice: based on successful strategies that improve client outcomes and are derived from a combination of various sources of evidence. Health literacy: to ability to access, comprehend, evaluate and communicate information to promote, maintain and improve health in a variety of settings across the lifespan.
