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Nursing - Information Literacy

Learning Objectives:

By the end of Module 2: Students will be able to:

  • Identify the steps of evidence based practice
     
  • Develop a foreground question using the PICO (T)  elements
     
  • Recognize the hierarchical nature of the health sciences literature, ranging from background information, letters and case reports to systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and pre-appraised sources
     
  • Recognize strategies for filtering search results to retrieve research conducted using high quality methodologies
     
  • Understand the need to critically appraise published research, and recognize the specialized tools for appraisal