Nursing Research

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Nursing Research

• Dr. Reema Safadi -Doghmi

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Definitions

• Nursing research is systematic inquiry designed
  to develop knowledge about issues of importance
  to nurses, including nursing practice, nursing
  education, and nursing administration (Polit,
  Beck Hungler, 2001).
• Nursing research is concerned with knowledge that
  directly and indirectly influences clinical
  nursing practice (Burns Grove, 1997).

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• The most objective and reliable source of nursing
  knowledge is obtained through scientific
  research. According to Polit and Hungler (1995),
  the scientific approach is "a general set of
  orderly, disciplined procedures used to acquire
  dependable and useful information". The
  scientific method used empirical data, which are
  data gathered through the sense organs.

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The three basic elements of scientific method
are

• Skepticism doubt and analysis.
• Determinism events occur according to regular
  laws and causes, not a result of caprices of
  demons or witches (cause-effect)
• Empiricism inquiry ought to be conducted
  through observation and verified through
  experience.

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The scientific Method Model

• Observations Hypotheses Theories.

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• Similarities between scientific research and the
  problem solving approach
• Both processes involve identifying a problem area
  a research question.
• Establishing a plan research design.
• Collecting data.

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• The purpose for problem solving attempts to seek
  a solution to an immediate, actual problem that
  exists for a person or for persons in a given
  setting.
• The purpose of scientific research is much
  broader it seeks to obtain knowledge that can be
  generalized to other people and to other settings.

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Goals for conducting nursing research

• Improvement in nursing care service based on
  knowledge, scientific research as the most
  reliable means of obtaining knowledge.
• Clinical nursing research parallels the Nursing
  Process should be conducted in the area of
  assessment, planning, nursing diagnosis, nursing
  intervention and evaluation of nursing care.
  Research findings enable the nurse to describe,
  explain, predict and control phenomena related to
  the health of clients.

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• Credibility of the nursing profession One of the
  criteria for a profession is the existence of a
  body of knowledge that is distinct from that of
  other disciplines.

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• Accountability for nursing practice To be
  accountable for practice means that nurses must
  have sound rationales for their actions based on
  knowledge that is gained through scientific
  research.

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• Documentation of the cost effectiveness of
  nursing care consumers of health care need to be
  made aware of the importance of nursing care in
  relation to maintaining the health of well
  clients and in promoting the recovery and
  rehabilitation of ill clients. Studies that are
  involved in health promoting behaviors and its
  relation with cutting costs.

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Roles of nurses in research

• Indirect by being consumers of research

Producers of research
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Roles of nurses in research

• Principle investigator beginning researcher can
  conduct a small scale survey study.
• Member of a research team act as data collector
  or administer the experimental intervention
• Evaluator of research findings determine the
  usefulness of research findings in the practice
  area critique research articles (beginners).

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• User of research findings after evaluating
  research findings, nurses should use relevant
  findings in their practice. The results of one
  small study conducted with a sample of volunteers
  would not provide sufficient evidence for a
  change in nursing practice.
• Clinical advocate during studies making sure
  that the ethical aspects of research are uphold.
• Subjects in studies nurses can be chosen as
  subjects because they could report exposures and
  diseases more accurately than general people.

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• Nursing research provides a specialized
  scientific knowledge base that empowers the
  nursing profession to anticipate and meet these
  constantly shifting challenges and maintain our
  societal relevance.

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