TABLE OF CONTENT
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Research:-
The word research means “to search again” or to “to examine carefully”.
Research is a diligent, systemic inquiry or study to validate and refine
existing knowledge and develop new knowledge
Nursing Research – is a scientific process that validates and refines existing
knowledge and generates new knowledge that directly and indirectly
influences nursing practice.
Purpose of Research In Nursing:-
Broad:-
⮚ To improve the practice of its members so that the services provided
to clientele will have the greatest impact.
Specific:-
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, ⮚ Develop scientific, evidence based reasons for nursing activities.
⮚ Finding ways of increasing the cost – effectiveness of nursing activities.
⮚ Providing the basis for standards setting and quality assurance.
⮚ Providing evidence in support of demands for resources in nursing.
⮚ Defending a professional status for nursing.
⮚ Focusing on priority problems that affect the nursing profession.
OBJECTIVES
The student should be able to demonstrate knowledge in research: -
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
1. The student will be able to describe the concept of Research and its
application in Nursing
2. The research methodology
3. Be able to demonstrate knowledge in writing research proposals
4. Be able to participate in research and publication of finding in local,
regional and international journals.
a) Definition of Research
b) Research definition in nursing profession
c) Characteristics of research
d) Purposes of research research-describe, discover, control
and enable interpretation of an events
e) Importance/goals of nursing research
▪ Evidence based practice
▪ Credibility
▪ Accountability for nursing practice
▪ Documentation of cost effectiveness of the nursing
practice
▪ Providing the basis for standard and quality assurance
f) Sources of knowledge
✔ Previous research
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, ✔ Experience
✔ Tradition
✔ Authority
✔ Intuition –The ability to gain knowledge
g) Definition of terminologies:-
✔ Sample
✔ Data
✔ Variable e.g. .age, weight, size
✔ Hypothesis
✔ Population
✔ abstract
✔ External validity
✔ Visibility
✔ Quantitative variables
✔ Independent variable
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, Note:-
❖ The ability to conduct research is becoming an ever important skill
❖ The ultimate purpose of nursing is to provide high quality patient
case
❖ Clinical practice without research is practice based on tradition
without validation
❖ Research is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing
treatment to determine the impact of nursing care on the health of
the patients or the test out theory
❖ Nursing practice is undergoing tremendous challenges. In order to
meet social challenges and needs, nursing practice must be
research based
❖ Research in nursing evolved predominantly when nursing education
became a part of higher education and was seeking its own body of
knowledge, different from that of medicine. Nursing is first
researchers were being prepared in fields other than nursing and
have brought to nursing the various paradigms from those fields.
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1.0 INTRODUCTION
Research:-
The word research means “to search again” or to “to examine carefully”.
Research is a diligent, systemic inquiry or study to validate and refine
existing knowledge and develop new knowledge
Nursing Research – is a scientific process that validates and refines existing
knowledge and generates new knowledge that directly and indirectly
influences nursing practice.
Purpose of Research In Nursing:-
Broad:-
⮚ To improve the practice of its members so that the services provided
to clientele will have the greatest impact.
Specific:-
Page 1
, ⮚ Develop scientific, evidence based reasons for nursing activities.
⮚ Finding ways of increasing the cost – effectiveness of nursing activities.
⮚ Providing the basis for standards setting and quality assurance.
⮚ Providing evidence in support of demands for resources in nursing.
⮚ Defending a professional status for nursing.
⮚ Focusing on priority problems that affect the nursing profession.
OBJECTIVES
The student should be able to demonstrate knowledge in research: -
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
1. The student will be able to describe the concept of Research and its
application in Nursing
2. The research methodology
3. Be able to demonstrate knowledge in writing research proposals
4. Be able to participate in research and publication of finding in local,
regional and international journals.
a) Definition of Research
b) Research definition in nursing profession
c) Characteristics of research
d) Purposes of research research-describe, discover, control
and enable interpretation of an events
e) Importance/goals of nursing research
▪ Evidence based practice
▪ Credibility
▪ Accountability for nursing practice
▪ Documentation of cost effectiveness of the nursing
practice
▪ Providing the basis for standard and quality assurance
f) Sources of knowledge
✔ Previous research
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, ✔ Experience
✔ Tradition
✔ Authority
✔ Intuition –The ability to gain knowledge
g) Definition of terminologies:-
✔ Sample
✔ Data
✔ Variable e.g. .age, weight, size
✔ Hypothesis
✔ Population
✔ abstract
✔ External validity
✔ Visibility
✔ Quantitative variables
✔ Independent variable
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, Note:-
❖ The ability to conduct research is becoming an ever important skill
❖ The ultimate purpose of nursing is to provide high quality patient
case
❖ Clinical practice without research is practice based on tradition
without validation
❖ Research is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing
treatment to determine the impact of nursing care on the health of
the patients or the test out theory
❖ Nursing practice is undergoing tremendous challenges. In order to
meet social challenges and needs, nursing practice must be
research based
❖ Research in nursing evolved predominantly when nursing education
became a part of higher education and was seeking its own body of
knowledge, different from that of medicine. Nursing is first
researchers were being prepared in fields other than nursing and
have brought to nursing the various paradigms from those fields.
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