This domain articulates the requirement that the ANP should practice incorporating best available evidence to provide quality health care and contribute to the creation and/or implementation of knowledge through active participation.
Evidence-Based Practice
Integrates evidence and research findings into practice.
Performance Criteria:
- Develops and/or participates in research - as a primary investigator or in collaboration with others - to improve, enhance or benefit patient care, nursing practice and/or the organization/health system.
- Identifies and implements novel research based treatments or innovations to improve patient care.
- Critically reviews, analyzes, interprets and applies evidence to clinical practice.
- Disseminates research and clinical findings through publications, presentations, seminars, etc.
- Utilizes current evidence-based knowledge, including research findings, to guide nursing practice.
- Incorporates credible critically appraised evidence into nursing practice and when initiating change.
- Participates in the formulation of evidence-based practice based on best available credible research and/or national and international professional consensus and guidance and audit.
- Disseminates personal or third-party research, practice development and audit findings with colleagues and peers in order enhance nursing interventions and inform care delivery.
- Takes personal responsibility to critically evaluate and integrate relevant research findings into decision making about health care management and interventions.
- Chooses, applies, or withholds interventions in a manner that is substantiated by relevant research and appropriate to the needs of the patient or system.
- Designs programs for effective implementation of research findings and other evidence in clinical practice.
- Cultivates a climate of clinical inquiry across spheres of influence.
Using data and information systems
Uses data systems to enhance the quality and delivery of patient care.
Performance Criteria:
- Acquires the information technology skills needed to inform and provide optimum healthcare care and document accurately outcomes of interventions.
- Understands how to use technology and data to assist in problem identification and identification of deficiencies that can be remediated to enable improvements in patient care.
- Analyses data accurately and comprehensively leading to appropriate interpretation of findings and development of implementation plans.
Research Participation
Uses research, evaluation, service improvement and audit findings to enhance the quality of patient care and protect the rights of those participating.
Performance Criteria:
- Participates in activities that disseminate research findings such as, publications, journal clubs, grand rounds and presentations.
- Promotes research, evaluation, service improvement initiatives and audit designed to improve healthcare practice and disseminate findings to colleagues, patients, families, communities, and society.
- Undertakes appropriate development to ensure competency to recruit, ensure informed consent is obtained, support involvement, facilitate, monitor and where appropriate advocate withdrawal of individuals participating in clinical research and evaluation.
- Implements research-based innovations for improving care.
- Undertakes appropriate development to ensure competency to recruit, ensure informed consent is obtained, support involvement, facilitate, monitor and where appropriate advocate withdrawal of individuals participating in clinical research and evaluation.
- Collaborates with senior investigators and/or members of the interdisciplinary team in conducting research relevant to practice.
