Evidence, Research and Development
Effective Practitioner - Evidence, Research and Development
What Does Evidence, Research and Development Mean for the Effective Practitioner?
An effective practitioner is expected to provide care and services that are evidence based. Using evidence and research to inform your practice requires a number of specific research skills as well as other core skills including IT, written and oral communication and project planning skills. Using this wide range of skills will help to ensure any new projects you initiate achieve the results you want.
You may also want to identify how local and national guidelines and protocols are being used and to find out if there are any studies, audits, evaluations that you could get involved in to develop your practice.
If you wish to develop your own project e.g. an audit, evaluation, service improvement or research-related activity, it's important to be aware of local ethics and research governance processes, the skills required to gather evidence, accessing online databases and utilising qualitative and/or quantitative data gathering techniques.
It is important to consider sharing findings, impacts and improvement so others may benefit. This could be in written form (e.g. local or national publications, social media), in house workshops and/or poster and conference presentation.
Within this section you will find information on funding opportunities, projects and improvement methodologies.
Click through the pages below for information and resources relating to this pillar of practice:
- Research and Audit (COMING SOON)
- Gathering Evidence
- Reviewing, & Assessing Practice (COMING SOON)
- Quality Improvement (COMING SOON)
- Evidence, research and development resources (COMING SOON)
Learning Activities
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Click the link below to open or download a PDF document of reflective, work based activities that align to the Evidence, Research and Development Pillar of Practice.
