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3. Finding evidence to inform your practice
This Open Badge is awarded to people who recognise that the use of evidence based information to support them in their role is good practice.
The decisions you take and the recommendations you make in Social Care are based on your professional judgement — a mixture of your knowledge, your experience and your understanding of the context. This Open Badge course explores the various information sources that are available to support you in your decision making. It includes familiar sources like Google as well as other sources such as health websites, journals and e-books.
After completing all three badges in this series you will be eligible for the Knowledge and Evidence Champion Open Badge:
- An introduction to The Knowledge Network for health and social care
- Using The Knowledge Network for health and social care to support your practice
- Finding evidence to inform your practice
Explore The Knowledge Network for health and social care pages and read the Search Tips on the Help and Training pages
You must hold the following badges before you can apply for this one:
Introduction to The Knowledge Network for health and social care
Using The Knowledge Network for health and social care to support your practice.
Tell us what information source(s) you would use:
1. to undertake some basic research (Search tips)
2. to find policy information
3. to find trusted health information to share with supported people and their carers
Review the Search tips and tell us how you can make sure that the information you find is accurate and up to date?
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The Knowledge Network for health and social care
The Knowledge Network for health and social care is a digital library designed for thos working within social care in Scotland. Here you will find high-quality materials like eBooks and eJournals to help inform your research and practice.
Submit your application
The SSSC Open Badge system relies on trust. We trust that the evidence you provide will be of your own work and based on your own skills and knowledge. By submitting an application you agree to the following statement: “In studying and completing the activities for this badge, I confirm that all the work provided as evidence will be my own.” The SSSC will revoke a badge if the evidence provided is discovered to have been the work of someone else.
Your evidence, name, and email address will be sent to the organisation who issue this badge