Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes
- Identify research needs
- Identify opportunities for research through reflection on experience and outcomes of own nursing practice
- Work with professional colleagues in relation to systemic change and areas for collaborative research
- Identify and analyse internal and external factors that impact on the research process and the application of potential research outcomes
- Select a focus for research and develop objectives with clear links to workplace needs
- Research nursing trends and best practice
- Develop and document a research plan that includes clear information about objectives and methodologies
- Assess and select research strategies suited to areas of focus
- Access and explore information about current, emerging and innovative ideas and trends in nursing practice
- Source and collate evidence-based information about nursing best practice
- Analyse researched information
- Compare best practice evidence to current nursing practice and determine potential for development and change in own workplace
- Assess the strength, relevance, reliability and currency of information gathered by research in the context of the organisation’s current nursing practice
- Identify and analyse specific ways in which researched information may be used or adapted for workplace improvement
- Assess the feasibility, benefits and risks associated with researched information and its potential use
- Develop substantiated positions and ideasfrom research and analysis
- Report on research
- Test and discuss positions developed from research through collaboration with colleagues
- Develop reports for relevant personnel using language and format appropriate to audience, purpose and context
- Incorporate reasoned argument and substantiated evidence into reporting
- Present research findings according to organisation standards and review processes