This domain articulates the requirement that the registered nurse 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:
- 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.
- Critically evaluates research, audit and practice development findings that underpin nursing practice.
- Promotes dissemination, use, monitoring and review of professional standards and best practice guidelines.
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.
