Module Description

Health and social care practice require good knowledge of high-quality evidence in order to provide evidence-based care and services.  Conversely, improving health and social care services is of great importance.  Innovation and creativity in practice can help to improve the quality of care but such change and improvement cannot be made without thorough understanding of evidence and research. 

This module will enable you to understand and critically discuss the importance of evidence and research in your practice environment.  It will enable you to consider the evidence used in your practice and how you decide upon this.  It will also allow you to consider the process of research in generation of evidence.  Frameworks that underpin the processes of research and evidence-based practice will be presented and you will begin to apply them to a topic of your choice. This module will develop skills in critical appraisal of research and evidence directly related to your chosen area of practice. 

This ethos forms the basis of the level 6 module: Research and Evidence-Based Practice. The content of the module ‘Research and Evidence-Based Practice’ combined with this module will provide you with the knowledge and structure of research and service improvement that you may employ to improve quality of care and services. 

Module Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:

1. Critically evaluate a body of evidence or research in relation to your chosen environment.

Module Content

This module will build on your knowledge of evidence and research-based practice.  In doing this it will enable you to conduct a short desk-based project that requires you to critically appraise research literature. 

By the end of this module you will have covered:

• The role and importance of research and evidence-based practice
• The types of evidence and approaches research
• How evidence-based practice and research are inter-related
• Debates surrounding the implementation of evidence and research e.g. legal, ethical, and professional issues
• Methods to critically appraise research and/or evidence-based practice
• The research processes
• How to conduct a review of evidence/research literature
• Appraise the quality of evidence/research literature

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