VCCC Alliance - Essential Research Skills for Clinical Nurses

Programme Structure

The program focuses on:

• Appreciate the importance of research skills for clinical nurses

• Develop a research question to address gaps in clinical practice

• Understand principles of research integrity and ethics

• Understand the importance of consumers in research and the principles of consumer engagement

• Recognise different research approaches and identify the most appropriate method to answer a research question

• Appreciate that there are different ways of collecting and analysing data that need to align with a chosen research approach

• Understand the principles of how to implement evidence into practice