Course description
This theoretical course focuses on providing nursing students with the cognitive critical thinking skills required for professional nursing practice. The course enables nursing students to practice critical thinking through the analysis of certain nursing case studies. Specific emphasis is placed on a variety of nursing specialties including adult health nursing, community nursing, maternal-newborn nursing, child health nursing and mental health nursing
Course objectives
Upon completion of this course, the students should be able to
.Develop a concern regarding evidence based practice in nursing
.Utilize skills for evidence-based practice
.Perform literature review
.Apply principles of critical thinking appraisal
.Identify basis of evidence based guidelines
. Implement best evidence in clinical practice
.Apply scientific principles of documenting references