What is Nursing research?
Nursing research is specifically focused on questions or problems related to nurses or client’s care of a nurse.
-Clinical nursing research focusses on the practice setting.
Why does research matter?
The procedures you perform as a nurse have evolved due to research.
What is the magnet status?
- Hospitals that show a propensity to utilize evidence-based practice can achieve this.
What roles do nurses have?
- They can have an active role or a passive role in research.
What are some active roles?
- Active roles include contributing to an idea for clinical inquiry, assisting in the collection of research information, offering advice to clients about participating in a study, or discussing the implications of a study in a journal club.
What are some passive roles?
- is searching for research evidence, much like you will do in this class.
What is evidence- based practice?
- A strong push in which nurses using research to inform their practice. This will require nurses to be adept at finding and critiquing research to determine if the results are valid.
Systematic review
- happens when multiple studies are done
- combine the results from several studies on a particular topic
What direct link does clinical research need to have
- Quality research is important, but studies need to have a direct link to clinical practice, including a focus on patients, and having a way to address health or cultural disparities in healthcare.
Methods that require caution
- Tradition and authority - strong influences such as textbook or seasoned nurse but can’t guarantee that is it based off of evidence
- Clinical experience and trial and error: trial and error is not disciplined enough to determine an intervention is reliably correlated to its results.
Methods that are prudent
Assembled information:
- represent the quality of nursing care. Compiled on a national level and benchmarks are set for facilities to aim to meet. It is prudent to use to determine is a hospital or a unit needs to change its practice, but by itself this data does not guide the practice.
Methods that are recommended
Disciplined research!!
- search literature for methods to improve a problem and analyze the studies
- Find a common intervention supported by several studies and precede to present findings to your unit practice council.
Paradigms
- a worldview or general perspective in the world’s complexities
Positive paradigm
- ## is associated more with quantitative data as it seeks objectively and to distance the researcher from what is being researched.
Constructive’s paradigm
- places the researcher in direct contact with the participants and subjectively is important and is more associated with qualitative research.
Both paradigms
- seek to answer questions
- solve problems
- gather evidence
- require human cooperation whether it be consent or active participation
- obey ethical demands
- have limitations
Quantitative research uses a _________
-systemic process meaning it progresses through a series of steps.
Quantitative research seeks to minimize what?
- Bias and maximize validity
- evidence is measurable and gathered from the senses
- may use formal instruments to collect data
Quantitative Research Generalizability
- refers to results that can apply to the general population and not just the participants in the study.
Qualitative research uses a _____ process
- Inductive
- going from general to specific
- steps are not defined
- focuses on the human experience
- Results are less likely to be able to be applied to those not included in the study.
In qualitative data the only numerical info is related..
to someone’s demographics
Descriptive Study
- Aimed at describing a phenomemon
- a study that measures the amount of stress patients face before surgery. it focuses on measruing and describing the stress.
Identification
only qualitative and aims to identify a phenomenon that has not been researched before
Exploratory
takes a concept and explores factors that impact it.
