NSG2104 – WEEK 1 LECTURE NOTES
Sources of Nursing Knowledge
1) Traditional (aspects and custom) – Passed Generation to generation , little or no
questioning
2) Authority (role models)- Experienced persons
3) Trial and error – Different ideas to see if they work (manage routines, time
management)
4) Personal experience – Works best in a situation
5) Intuition – sudden insight knowledge not without conscious reasoning and evidence,
needs to be explored not ignored
6) Reasoning – Knowledge (logical method) to come across a conclusion
7) Research – scientific approach to answer a question or explore practice
What is Research?
- Looking repeatedly at existing knowledge
- Exploring the possibility of new knowledge
- Using or adapting that knowledge to inform the discipline of a specific issue or
question
- Contributing to the discipline’s body of knowledge by this enquiry?
Why conduct research?
- Test assumptions (Cracking knuckles is release of nitrogen gas from bone, however it
cannot be assumed its arthritis at once)
- Widen understanding of subject (COVID 19- mode of transmission, how to treat it,
changed how we treat it, less hospital based, treat at home, long covid (not positive
but long-term fatigue, low endurance), vaccinating against disease
- Stimulate self-action or study
- Develop best practice (traditional dressing method – large wound can be applied by
a negative pressure dressing (draws out exudate through a sealed dressing that
increases blood flow to the wound and increase healing times)
- Explain behaviours
- Predict outcomes
- Assist in the formation of a body of knowledge?
What is Nursing Research?
- Uses the research process as a tool to search for , develop, refine and expand a body
of knowledge that shapes and enhances the practice of nursing
- Asking questions and refining questions based on CLINICAL PRACTICE, THEORIES,
LITERATURE, SOCIAL ISSUES, OTHER SOURCES
- Systematic way of obtaining evidence to help solve nursing problems and
investigating nursing issues
- Provides guidance for nursing management, education, and scholarship
- Develops evidence-based practice
Sources of Nursing Knowledge
1) Traditional (aspects and custom) – Passed Generation to generation , little or no
questioning
2) Authority (role models)- Experienced persons
3) Trial and error – Different ideas to see if they work (manage routines, time
management)
4) Personal experience – Works best in a situation
5) Intuition – sudden insight knowledge not without conscious reasoning and evidence,
needs to be explored not ignored
6) Reasoning – Knowledge (logical method) to come across a conclusion
7) Research – scientific approach to answer a question or explore practice
What is Research?
- Looking repeatedly at existing knowledge
- Exploring the possibility of new knowledge
- Using or adapting that knowledge to inform the discipline of a specific issue or
question
- Contributing to the discipline’s body of knowledge by this enquiry?
Why conduct research?
- Test assumptions (Cracking knuckles is release of nitrogen gas from bone, however it
cannot be assumed its arthritis at once)
- Widen understanding of subject (COVID 19- mode of transmission, how to treat it,
changed how we treat it, less hospital based, treat at home, long covid (not positive
but long-term fatigue, low endurance), vaccinating against disease
- Stimulate self-action or study
- Develop best practice (traditional dressing method – large wound can be applied by
a negative pressure dressing (draws out exudate through a sealed dressing that
increases blood flow to the wound and increase healing times)
- Explain behaviours
- Predict outcomes
- Assist in the formation of a body of knowledge?
What is Nursing Research?
- Uses the research process as a tool to search for , develop, refine and expand a body
of knowledge that shapes and enhances the practice of nursing
- Asking questions and refining questions based on CLINICAL PRACTICE, THEORIES,
LITERATURE, SOCIAL ISSUES, OTHER SOURCES
- Systematic way of obtaining evidence to help solve nursing problems and
investigating nursing issues
- Provides guidance for nursing management, education, and scholarship
- Develops evidence-based practice
