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Module - Evidence Based Practice (level 6)

As a core module across a range of programmes the activities and feedback that you will receive throughout the evidence based practice module are designed to enhance both your clinical and academic skills.

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Course Overview

Studying this module will enhance your understanding of how evidence based practice has come to underpin the delivery of health care. It will explore a wide range of evidence and enhance your ability to acquire and evaluate evidence.

You will need to complete an induction prior to commencement of your first module. We have a comprehensive online induction package to welcome you to both the University and your programme of study.

On this course you will...

  • Demonstrate the skills of locating high quality evidence that is capable of enhancing decision making in your own sphere of practice
  • Demonstrate how evidence can be manipulated and analyse specific examples of this from your own sphere of practice
  • Discuss how clinical guidelines are developed and how they evolve by analysing specific examples from your own area of practice
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What you will learn

As a core module across a range of programmes the activities and feedback that you will receive throughout the evidence based practice module are designed to enhance both your clinical and academic skills.

Are you confident that what we do in practice is the best way of doing it ? Are we providing the most effective treatment or giving the best advice, and do you know how to locate and evaluate the most up to date information that will enable you to achieve these objectives ?

Undertaking the evidence based practice module will enhance your ability to ask the relevant questions and to hone the skills needed to answer them.

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