Nursing REPLICA A.O. S. CAMILLO

In this module, students develop the foundational competences to understand, analyze, and apply the methodological principles of Evidence-Based Nursing and nursing research. Through lectures and guided exercises, they learn to recognize different study designs (qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods), differentiate between primary and secondary research, and situate each design within the evidence hierarchy. Specific emphasis is placed on formulating research questions using PICO and PCC models and defining inclusion and exclusion criteria, which are essential for rigorous systematic searches. Students learn to build complex search strings using Boolean operators, filters, and controlled vocabularies (MeSH, CINAHL Headings), and to navigate key biomedical and nursing databases (PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus) independently. In the second part of this module, students analyze bibliographic record structures (authors, title, abstract, DOI, keywords), evaluate the relevance of selected articles, and organize retrieved data systematically.

Know the basic concepts of nursing and the main theories of evidence-based nursing.

Joanna Briggs Institute. JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis. JBI, 2020. ISBN 978-0-648-84812-3 Polit D.F., Beck C.T. Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice. Wolters Kluwer, 2021 (11th ed.). ISBN 978-1-9751-8041-4

Lessons according to the academic calendar

oral exam and research on the main databases

Lo Biondo-Wood G., Haber J. Metodologia della ricerca infermieristica: metodi e valutazione critica per la pratica basata sulle evidenze. Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, 2023. ISBN 978-88-08-19064-0 Melnyk B.M., Fineout-Overholt E. Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2018 (4th ed.). ISBN 978-1-4963-5104-6