Aim of the Teaching is to:
• understand the importance of research and scientific knowledge for the professional practice of nurses.
• Provide the student with the necessary skills to carry out a bibliographic search on databases
• Provide the student knowledge about the purpose of evidence-based nursing and its effectiveness in clinical practice,
• Provide the student knowledge about the conceptual definition of nursing care outcomes and evidence of its efficacy in the relationship between nursing processes and life activities of the patient.
• Illustrate some problems in identifying some outcomes of nursing care;
• Illustrate some strengths of the minimum nursing datasets in assessing evidence-based practice and outcomes.
• Illustrate nursing professionalism in local services and hospital services.
• make the student identify organizational issues and concepts related to quality of care and to teach him how to collect information on guidelines and how to define, observe and prepare quality reports.
• Provide the student knowledge about the main functions of the institutional bodies related to the profession and the strong professional value inherent in cultural associations.