Course level

Undergraduate

Faculty

Health & Behavioural Sciences

School

Nursing, Midwifery & Social Wk

Units

2

Duration

One Semester

Delivery mode

Internal

Class hours

1C4W

Prerequisite

24 units in (BN, BMid or BN/BMid)

Companion

NURS3102 or NURS3104 or MIDW3102 or MIDW3104

Restricted

BN, BMid and BN/BMid

Assessment methods

Literature review, presentation, poster.

Course enquiries

Dr Jacqueline Jauncey-Cooke (j.jaunceycooke@uq.edu.au), Dr Nigel Lee (nigel.lee@uq.edu.au)

Current course offerings

Course offerings Location Mode Course Profile
Semester 2, 2024 (22/07/2024 - 16/11/2024) St Lucia In Person Profile unavailable

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Course description

This course aims to build on students' foundation skills learned over Years 1 and 2 by introducing students to a range of methodologies used in health care environments to inform and improve practice and ensure care is safe, evidence-based and of high quality. The course provides students with broad information around concepts related to quality improvement, research and identify their relationship to evidence based practice, knowledge translation and implementation science. The course introduces students to quality improvement tools and basic qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. It further develops students' skills in accessing and evaluating literature and explores methods of analysing, presenting and disseminating data. The centrality of ethical practice in healthcare research is also discussed.

Archived offerings

Course offerings Location Mode Course Profile
Semester 2, 2025 (21/07/2025 - 15/11/2025) St Lucia In Person Profile unavailable
Semester 1, 2023 (20/02/2023 - 17/06/2023) St Lucia In Person Course Profile
Semester 2, 2023 (24/07/2023 - 18/11/2023) St Lucia In Person Course Profile
Semester 1, 2022 (21/02/2022 - 21/06/2022) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 1, 2021 (22/02/2021 - 19/06/2021) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 1, 2020 (24/02/2020 - 11/07/2020) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 1, 2019 (25/02/2019 - 23/06/2019) St Lucia Internal Course Profile