CHW Inquiry Academy

Monday, February 3, 2025, 10:00 AM - Monday, April 21, 2025, 11:30 AM


ANCC Contact Hour(s) (12.00 hours)

The CHW Inquiry Academy equips team members with didactic knowledge and practical experience in reviewing data, determining clinical practice questions, reviewing literature and evaluating evidence, synthesizing evidence, and creating actionable proposals for quality improvement work, evidence-based application, or a research study proposal. Participants will identify a clinical question, perform a literature review and synthesis, and create a research poster presentation that will be shared across the organization.

1. Use organizational and/or unit level data to identify relevant clinical practice questions.U
2. Recognize indications for a change in clinical practice.
3. Describe how research, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement differ.
4. Construct and implement an effective search strategy of professional literature.
5. Describe characteristics that should be used when appraising quantitative and qualitative studies.
6. Critique and rank the quality and strength of evidence.
7. Synthesize findings from literature search as they pertain to population and setting to inform clinical practice.
8. Create a project proposal for research, EBP application, or quality improvement.
9. Practice professional dissemination of scholarly work.

Corewell Health West is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Wisconsin Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

 

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Spectrum Health adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.