Course Description: Understanding and utilizing research findings are fundamental skills that are needed to advance the nursing profession. This course focuses on advanced scholarly activities that are utilized to conduct nursing research. The history of nursing research; steps that are utilized to conduct research; and differences between the utilization of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies are discussed. The modeling of servant leadership principles that include the incorporation of research into one’s own practice; engaging in and encouraging activities to generate evidence; and promoting others to use research findings will be explored.