Implementing evidence into practice (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

0-5

Content scheduling

27.8.2025:
Purpose and importance of evidence-based practices in healthcare
Impacts of the healthcare practice questioning
28.8.2025:
PICO format
Levels of evidence. Effect, effectiveness, and efficiency in evidence-based practice
Meta-analyses, systematic reviews and RCT as source of evidence
16.9.2025:
Critical appraisal tools, checklists
Implementation theories, models, and frameworks (JBI)
7.10.2025:
Creating and sustaining evidence-based healthcare culture
Leading multiprofessional teams in evidence-based practice as an autonomous practitioner
Evaluating the outcomes of implementation of evidence-based interventions
29.10.2025
Students' presentations

Objective

The purpose is that you are able to acquire, critically assess and produce evidence-based information while taking into account the perspectives of different fields. You are able to develop and manage goal-oriented, continuous learning concerning evidence-based practices in your working community. You are able to integrate a body of evidence from clinical nursing guidelines and other evidence-based practice sources into autonomous decision-making.

Competences: Learning to learn, Counselling of patients, clients and family members,
Health assessment and direct clinical care

By the end of the course, you are able to question healthcare practices for the purpose of improving the quality of care. You are able to create, develop, and critically evaluate evidence-based educational digital interventions aimed at different types of patient groups. You possess knowledge and skills to implement successfully evidence-based interventions into clinical practice. You can lead multi-professional communities to foster evidence-based organisational culture, infrastructure, and teamwork. You can take responsibility for independent decisions as an advanced nurse practitioner concerning the selection of evidence-based nursing methods, the implementation of a care plan, and monitoring of a patient’s health condition.

Content

Purpose and importance of evidence-based practices in healthcare

Impacts of the healthcare practice questioning

PICO format

Levels of evidence. Effect, effectiveness, and efficiency in evidence-based practice

Meta-analyses, systematic reviews and RCT as source of evidence

Critical appraisal tools, checklists

Evidence-based digital educational interventions

Implementation theories, models, and frameworks

Creating and sustaining evidence-based healthcare culture

Leading multiprofessional teams in evidence-based practice as an autonomous practitioner

Evaluating the outcomes of implementation of evidence-based interventions

Location and time

27.8.2025 Contact lessons from 10 am to 12 pm Helsinki time
28.8.2025 Contact lessons from 9 am to 11 am Helsinki time
16.9.2025 Online webinar from 9 am to 11 am Helsinki time
7.10.2025 Online webinar from 9 am to 11 am Helsinki time
29.10.2025 Contact lessons from 2 pm to 5 pm Helsinki time

Materials

Homepage | Evidence Based Nursing (2025)
Ellis, P. 2023. Evidence-based Practice in Nursing. Chapter 3. SAGE Publications. 126269_book_item_126269.pdf
The JBI MODEL of Evidence-based healthcare. JBI Model of EBHC | JBI (2025)
Lindholm, L. 2022. Improving Programmes of Implementing Evidence-Based Practices in Health Care: The Case Study of a Real-world Programme of Two Evidence-based Practices. Dissertation, University of Tampere.
McArthur, C., Bai, Y. & Hewston, P. et al. 2021. Barriers and facilitators to implementing evidence-based guidelines in long-term care: a qualitative evidence synthesis. Implementation Science 16, 70. 
Cullen, L., et al. 2022. Workbook: Evidence-Based Practice in Action, Second Edition. ProQuest Ebook.  
Li, S., Jeffs, L., Barwick, M. et al. 2018. Organizational contextual features that influence the implementation of evidence-based practices across healthcare settings: a systematic integrative review. Systematic Review 7, 72.

Teaching methods

Lectures, home tasks, group tasks, independent learning

Student workload

STUDENT'S WORKLOAD:

Attending contact lessons and webinars: 11 hours
Home task prior to contact lessons and webinars: 24 hours
Assignments: 100 hours
Altogether 135 hours student's work

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

1 Sufficient
Student is able to recall the purpose of questioning healthcare practices and can recognise the need to integrate evidence-based practices into healthcare. Student is able to acquire evidence-based information while taking into account the perspectives from different fields. Student is aware of different evidence-based digital educational interventions for different patient groups. Student knows how to implement evidence into practice.

2 Satisfactory
Student is able to identify and illustrate problems and development challenges emerging from healthcare practice and is able to give examples from one’s own area of expertise. Student is able to describe the process of integrating a body of evidence into decision-making for individual patients. Student can assess evidence-based digital educational interventions and educational resources for different patient groups. Student can list different implementation theories and can understand the usage of these theories.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

3 Good
Student is able to acquire and critically assess evidence-based information while taking into account the perspectives of different fields. Student is able to question healthcare practices and identify relevant problems occurring in healthcare. Student is able to plan implementation of evidence-based interventions by utilising different theories, models and frameworks. Student can lead multi-professional communities to foster evidence-based organisational culture, infrastructure, and teamwork.

4 Very Good
Student is able to able to acquire and critically assess evidence-based information while taking into account the perspectives of different fields. Student can develop and manage goal-oriented, continuous learning concerning evidence-based practices in his/her working community. Student can integrate a body of evidence from clinical nursing guidelines and other evidence-based practice sources into autonomous decision-making. Student can analyse the applicability of evidence-based digital educational interventions and resources for different patient groups. Student can make an implement plan based on implementation theories and models and apply it into clinical practice. Student is able to lead multi-professional communities to foster evidence-based organisational culture, infrastructure, and teamwork and can take responsibility for independent decisions as an advanced nurse practitioner concerning evidence-based nursing methods.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

5 Excellent
Student is able to able to acquire, critically assess and produce evidence-based information while taking into account the perspectives of different fields. Student can develop and manage goal-oriented, continuous learning concerning evidence-based practices in his/her working community. Student can integrate a body of evidence from clinical nursing guidelines and other evidence-based practice sources into autonomous decision-making. Student can analyse the relevance, validity, and applicability of evidence-based digital educational interventions and resources for different patient groups. Student can make an implement plan based on implementation theories and models and apply it successfully into clinical practice. Student is able to lead multi-professional communities to foster evidence-based organisational culture, infrastructure, and teamwork and can take responsibility for independent decisions as an advanced nurse practitioner concerning evidence-based nursing methods.

Qualifications

Bachelor degree in nursing or healthcare

Further information

The course will be evaluated 0-5.
Assignments:
Evaluation and usability of the Cochrane podcast: pass/fail
Creating a PICO question: pass/fail
Implementation plan: pass/fail
Evaluation of a Systematic review: 0-5 grade