Overview
This unit will allow you to develop an understanding of the processes and theoretical underpinnings required to integrate evidence-based practice with clinical expertise to improve patient care. In addition, you will be able to formulate a clinical question, assimilate the basic principles and skills required to undertake literature searches of evidence-based resources, and interpret data and research findings relevant to the prehospital environment to inform practice.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2025
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Self-Reflection
Assessment rubrics for this unit will need to be refreshed and updated with more detail relating to artificial intelligence and academic integrity.
It is recommended to update the assessment rubrics before the next offering of this unit.
- Apply the processes and theoretical underpinnings required to integrate evidence-based practice with clinical expertise to improve patient care
- Formulate a clinical question
- Assimilate the basic principles and skills required to undertake literature searches of evidence-based resources
- Interpret data and research findings relevant to the prehospital environment to inform practice.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 60% | ||||
| 2 - Annotated bibliography - 40% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | ||||
| 2 - Communication | ||||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | ||||
| 4 - Research | ||||
| 5 - Self-management | ||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | ||||
| 7 - Leadership | ||||
| 8 - First Nations Knowledges | ||||
| 9 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 60% | |||||||||
| 2 - Annotated bibliography - 40% | |||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
n.williams-claassen@cqu.edu.au
Week 1
Begin Date: 10 Mar 2025Module/Topic
Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 2
Begin Date: 17 Mar 2025Module/Topic
Step 1 - Clinical Questions
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 3
Begin Date: 24 Mar 2025Module/Topic
Step 2 - Access - Literature Searches
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 4
Begin Date: 31 Mar 2025Module/Topic
Step 2 - Access - Literature Searches
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 5
Begin Date: 07 Apr 2025Module/Topic
Step 3 – Critical appraisal/Assess the literature - Qualitative and Quantitative Designs
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Vacation Week
Begin Date: 14 Apr 2025Module/Topic
Break week
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 6
Begin Date: 21 Apr 2025Module/Topic
Step 3 – Critical appraisal/Assess the literature - Qualitative and Quantitative Designs
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 7
Begin Date: 28 Apr 2025Module/Topic
Assess the literature - Sampling and Data Collection
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 8
Begin Date: 05 May 2025Module/Topic
Assess the literature -Data Quality and Data Analysis
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 9
Begin Date: 12 May 2025Module/Topic
Annotated Bibliographies
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 10
Begin Date: 19 May 2025Module/Topic
Appraisal - Evidence review
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 11
Begin Date: 26 May 2025Module/Topic
Steps 4 and 5 - Apply and Assess
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 12
Begin Date: 02 Jun 2025Module/Topic
Content Review and submission
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Review/Exam Week
Begin Date: 09 Jun 2025Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Exam Week
Begin Date: 16 Jun 2025Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Written Assessment
You will demonstrate your knowledge of the processes and theoretical underpinnings required to integrate best practice with clinical expertise and patient care, formulate clinical questions and assimilate the basic principles and skills required to undertake literature searches of evidence-based resources.
This will be conducted through varying tasks within a workbook and involves a mixture of long and short-answer responses, research, and reviews. The workbook will have points awarded to each task with the accumulation of these points being the result.
You must adhere to the workbook instructions and complete all tasks in the provided spaces.
Please refer to the Generative AI Permission document available on your Moodle site for guidelines on acceptable and unacceptable uses of Generative AI in this unit.
The workbook will be available on the unit’s Moodle site.
Week 8 Thursday (8 May 2025) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 10 Friday (23 May 2025)
Assessment criteria for this assessment are detailed in the workbook and available on the unit’s Moodle site.
As this is a written assessment, you must include proper in-text referencing and a reference list within the spaces provided
This workbook is worth 60% of your overall unit mark.
- Apply the processes and theoretical underpinnings required to integrate evidence-based practice with clinical expertise to improve patient care
- Formulate a clinical question
- Assimilate the basic principles and skills required to undertake literature searches of evidence-based resources
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
2 Annotated bibliography
This written assessment will develop your skills in evidence-based research. You must write an annotated bibliography on five (5) scientific journal articles and a critical summary that will answer your clinical question.
Use the PICO format to design a clinical question. Search the literature for journal articles related to your clinical question. Make notes on the literature search process as this will form your methodology.
You may find many articles related to your topic however only the most relevant and recent five (5) articles are required for your annotated bibliography. Each of the five (5) identified articles will require a bibliographic annotation. Each bibliographic annotation will be 200-250 words.
Your submission must include the following :
- Title: A title that is pertinent to what is discussed in the assessment and reflects the clinical question
- Keywords: A minimum of four (4) keywords. Keywords reflect the clinical question and were used for your literature search
- Clinical Question: A valid clinical question that can be researched
- Methodology: Describe the methods you used to perform your literature search. Aspects that need to be covered include the databases searched, inclusion and exclusion criteria, and the search terms used
- Bibliography: Each of the five (5) articles are to be presented individually. Each article's full reference should be presented in the Harvard referencing style and accompanied by a bibliographic annotation that includes the quality of the journal or the number of citations the article has attracted, the credibility of the author(s) and their affiliation(s), and a summary of the key findings in the article.
- Critical Summary: A critical summary of the literature findings, answering your clinical question
- Reference List: Any additional in-text references used in the summary will need to be included in the reference list however the five (5) annotated bibliographic references do not need to be referenced in the reference list.
- PDF Copies of the five (5) selected articles: When you upload your annotated bibliography to Moodle for submission, you must include the 5 articles used as separate PDFs. The PDFs are to be labelled with the first author and the year of publication e.g. Jackson, 2020.
Please refer to the Generative AI Permission document available on your Moodle site for guidelines on acceptable and unacceptable uses of Generative AI in this unit.
Please refer to the marking rubric for this assessment.
Week 12 Thursday (5 June 2025) 11:45 pm AEST
Exam Week Friday (20 June 2025)
The annotated bibliography will be assessed in accordance with the marking rubric and information provided on the unit’s Moodle site. The following criteria are key points to be included:
• The written assessment should be presented in an essay format.
• The written assessment must address each of the main topic tasks as detailed in the task description.
• Avoid superficial points or comments and be clear and concise.
• For all additional references, include in-text citations and a reference list as required.
There is a word limit of 2000 words (+/- 10%).
This assessment is worth 40% of your overall unit mark.
- Apply the processes and theoretical underpinnings required to integrate evidence-based practice with clinical expertise to improve patient care
- Assimilate the basic principles and skills required to undertake literature searches of evidence-based resources
- Interpret data and research findings relevant to the prehospital environment to inform practice.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
