Discuss the evolution of research and measurement in the advanced practice clinical setting. (Domain Educative Practice Evidence-informed Practice; Process Scholarship)

Nursing Research
1. Describe evidence-based practice (EBP) and its relationship to nursing research
nursing practice and healthcare.
(Domain Educative Practice Evidence-informed PracticeProcess Scholarship
Patient Safety)
2. Articulate and discuss the importance of research in advanced nursing practice.
(Domain Evidence-informed
Practice; Process Scholarship Patient Safety)
3. Discuss the evolution of research and measurement in the advanced practice
clinical setting. (Domain Educative
Practice Evidence-informed Practice; Process Scholarship)
4. Differentiate between common assumptions and types of quantitative and
qualitative research (Domain Evidence-
infonned Practice; Process Scholarship Patient Safety)
5. Differentiate between the steps of the quantitative and qualitative research
process implemented in different types of published quantitative and qualitative
studies. (Domain Evidence-informed Practice; Process Scholarship)
6. Describe the philosophical perspective of qualitative research. (Domain
Evidence-informed Practice; Process Scholarship)
7. Describe how epistemology directs research questions and the collection and
interpretation of data in quantitative and qualitative research. {Domain
Evidence-informed Practice; Process Schoiarship Patient Safety)
8. Explore the research processes for conducting phenomenology grounded theory
ethnography historical research and exploratory descriptive qualitative research.
(Domain Evidence-infonned Practice; Process Scholarship)
Requiredmssigned Reading
Grove S.K. Burns N. & Gray J. (2013). The Practice of Nursing Research:
Appraisal synthesis and generation of
evidence. 7 edition. St Louis Missouri. (Read Chapters 2 3 & 4)
Clarke A. (2013). From the ground up. Canadian Nurse 109
(5). 20-24.
DiCenso A. (2003). Evidence-based nursing practice: How to get there from here.
Nursing Leadership 16(4) 20-26.
urcourses.uregina.caicourse/view.php?id=6852& section=2
Course: MNUR 80] Research in Advanced Nursing Practice (Fall 2014) Topic: Unit 2
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l. Kilpatrick K. Donald F.. &Charbonneau-
Smith R. (2010). Advanced practice nursing in Canada: Overview of a decision
support synthesis. Nursing
Leadership 23(Special issue) 15-24.
Gerrish K. Nolan M. McDonnell A. Tod A. Kirshbaum M. Guillaume L.
(2012). Factors influencing advanced
practice nurses ability to promote evidence-based practice among frontline nurses.
Worldviews in Evidence Based
Nursing 9(1) 30-39. doi:10.1111ij.17416787.2011.00230.x.
Enrichment Resources
DiCenso A. & Bryant-Lukosius D. (2010). Clinical Nurse Specialists and Nurse
Practitioners in Canada: A Decision
Support Synthesis. Retrieved from http:ilwww.cfhifcass.ca!
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