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Nursing Research

• Islamic University College of Nursing

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Introduction to the Course
Welcome
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What is your response to research?
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What is the value of a research course to you as
a baccalaureate-prepared nurse?
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What is Research?

• To Search Again.
• Careful Systematic Inquiry.
• Discovery.

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Definition of Nursing Research
A scientific process that validates and refines
existing knowledge and generates new knowledge
that directly and indirectly influences nursing
practice.
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Why is Research Important in Nursing?
Description
Explanation
Prediction
Control
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Ways of Acquiring Knowledge in Nursing

• Role Modeling
• Intuition
• Reasoning
• Research

• Traditions
• Authority
• Trial Error
• Personal Experience

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History of Nursing Research

• Florence Nightingale
• Reformer
• Reactionary
• Researcher

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Florence Nightingale

• Crimean War 1853-1856.
• Collected data.
• Used statistics, graphs to present data.
• Based practice on research findings.

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Mortality
Pre/Post-Nursing Intervention Findings from
Nightingale
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Nursing Research 50s 60s

• Focus on Quantitative Research.
• Educational Studies.
• 1952 Nursing Research published.
• ANA Sponsored Research Conferences.
• ANA Commission on Nursing Research.

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Nursing Research 1970s

• Standards for Clinical Practice Developed.
• 1973 First Nursing Diagnosis Conference.
• Several Research Journals Started.
• 1978 Initial focus on Qualitative Research.

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Nursing Research 1980s

• 1986 National Center for Nursing Research (NCNR).
• Dr. Ada Sue Hinshaw, Director
• Several Research Journals Started.
• Clinical Journal Publishing Research.

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Nursing Research 1990s

• 1989 Agency for Health Care Policy Research
  (AHCPR) established.
• 1993 National Institute or Nursing. Research
  (NINR).
• 1995 Patricia Grady, PhD, RN
• Focus on Outcomes Research.

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Nursing Research Priorities

• To improve
• Nursing as a Profession.
• Nursing Practice.
• Patient Outcomes.

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Nursing Research Methods

• Quantitative Research
• Qualitative Research
• Outcomes
• Research

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Types of Quantitative Research

• Descriptive Research
• Correctional Research
• Quasi-Experimental Research
• Experimental Research

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Types of Qualitative Research

• Phenomenological Research
• Grounded Theory Research
• Ethnographic Research
• Historical Research

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Outcomes Research

• Outcomes of Patient, Provider, Health Care
  System
• Outcomes used to develop Policy
• Change Practice based on Research

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