Week 1 - Foundations of Nursing Research

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The History of MagicFoundations of Nursing
Research Development of Nursing research
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Hitting the high points

• Define nursing research
• Describe scientific research
• Why conduct research?
• Compare quantitative and qualitative research
• Recognize the importance of outcomes research

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Defining Nursing Research

• Educate the public that nurses do research
• Report research findings locally and nationally
• Present information on clinical practice issues

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Nursing Research cont.

• Ask the right questions
• Search for evidence to support and answer
  questions
• Implement changes to improve practice
• Evaluate results of the changes
• Add to our unique body of nursing knowledge

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Why Scientific research?

• Scientific method uses EMPIRICAL DATA (data
  gathered though the senses) and is
• Systematic
• Orderly
• Objective

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Why is the scientific method reliable?

• Unbiased data and facts
• Not influenced by researcher
• Control measures
• Scientific research
• Broader in scope
• Obtains data for generalization
• Applies knowledge to other people and settings

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Why conduct research?

• Basic research
• Generates new knowledge
• Develops, tests, and refines theories
• Immediate application of results rare
• Many years may pass before the social usefulness
  of the results are determined
• Applied research
• Majority of nursing research
• Uses new knowledge to solve immediate problems
• Knowledge is used in the immediate future

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Why conduct research cont.

• Promote EVIDENCE-BASED NURSING PRACTICE
• Ensure credibility of the nursing profession
• Provide accountability for nursing practice
• Document cost effectiveness of nursing care

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Evidence Based Nursing Practice

• Provide best possible care
• Clinical decisions based on
• Best research evidence
• Nurses clinical expertise
• Health care preferences of clients

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Compare Quantitative and Qualitative Research

• Quantitative
• Objectivity
• Tight controls
• Generalization of findings
• Qualitative
• Subjectivity
• No controls
• Not able to generalize findings

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Outcomes Research

• Measurable outcomes
• Addresses interventions
• Uses certain patient populations
• Nursing always concerned with outcomes

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How does OUTCOMES RESEARCH affect us?

• High cost of health care
• Nursing care that is cost effective
• Services provided that improve client health

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Activity 1History of Nursing Research

• Topics
• Nursing Education Studies Nutting Goldmark
  Report (1906/1923) Gryffindor A
• Sigma Theta Tau funding research (1936)
  Gryffindor B
• Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Nursing
  Research Unit (1957) Hufflepuff A
• ANA (1970, 1972, 1974, 1976) Hufflepuff B
• NCUR/NINR (1986/1993) Ravenclaw
• Cochrane Nursing Care Network (2009) Slytherin

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References

• Nieswiadomy, N. (2012) Foundation in Nursing
  Research. Upper Saddle River, NJ Pearson
  Education.