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What is the purpose of nursing research?
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1. Close the gap between reseach and practice
2. In the past, practice has often been based on: tradition, authority, past experience, and trial and error. 3. Increasing need for evidence based practice: sound knowledge base, logical reasoning, scientific rationale, application of research findings |
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What has been the historical basis of nursing practice in the past?
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tradition, past experience, authority and trial and error
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How does the registered nurse integrate evidence and research findings into practice?
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- Utilizes current evidence-based nursing knowledge, including research findings, to guide practice
- Incorporates evidence when initiating changes in nursing practice - Participates, as appropriate to education level and position, in the formulation of evidence-based practice through research - Shares personal or third-party research findings with colleagues and peers |
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Why is there an increasing need for evidence-based practice?
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- Because it brings together theory, clinical decision-making and judgment, and knowledge of the research process; incorporating them into the evaluation of research and scientific evidence.
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What are Carper’s ways of knowing?
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- Ethical
- Aesthetic - Empirical - Personal |
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Which of Carper’s Ways of Knowing relates to the research role of the nurse?
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- Empirical knowing
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What are Kneller’s “kinds of knowledge”?
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- Revealed knowledge
- Intuitive knowledge - Rational knowledge - Empirical knowledge - Authoritative knowledge |
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Which of Kneller’s “kinds of knowledge” relates to the research role of the nurse?
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- Empirical knowledge
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What are two databases that can provide systematic reviews of research?
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- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Cochrane Review |
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What is the focus of nursing research?
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- The ANA describes nursing research as directed toward building a body of nursing knowledge about “Human responses to actual or potential health problems”
- Also directed toward understanding the effects of nursing action on human responses. |
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What does nursing research reflect?
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- The traditional wholistic nursing perspective views the client with physiologic, psychologic, spiritual, cultural, developmental, and economic aspects
- The nurse’s 24-hour responsibility for the client’s/patient’s care: To improve health care outcomes that are cost-effective To contribute to developing theory and scientific knowledge |
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What is the history of nursing research?
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- Begins with Florence Nightingale who demonstrated the importance of research in the delivery of nursing care:
o Assessing and collecting data o Organizing and reporting data - 1920’s o Isabel Stewart integrated research into the graduate nursing curriculum at Teachers College, Columbia University o Published research in the Nursing Education Bulletin - 1950’s: Nursing Research- V. Henderson 1st editor - 1986: Center for Nursing Research established as part of NIH, became NINR in 1993 |
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What is the role of the baccalaureate nurse in nursing research?
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- Identify clinical problems requiring investigation
- Assist experienced investigators gain access to clinical sites - Influence the selection of appropriate methods of data collection - Collect data and implement nursing research findings |
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What is the role of the associate degree nurse in nursing research?
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- Help to identify clinical problems in nursing practice
- Assist in the collection of data within a structured format - In conjunction with nurses holding more advanced credentials, appropriately use research findings in clinical practice |
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What is the role of the master’s prepared nurse in nursing research?
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- Be active members of research teams
- Assume the role of clinical expert collaborating with experienced investigators in proposal development, data collection, data analysis, and interpretation - Appraise the clinical relevance of research findings - Help create a climate that supports scholarly inquiry, scientific integrity, and scientific investigation of clinical nursing problems - Provide leadership for integrating findings in clinical practice |
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What are specific ethical concerns in conducting nursing research?
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- Right not to be harmed
- Right to full disclosure - Right to self-determination - Right of privacy and confidentiality |
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What is quantitative research?
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- Uses precise measurement for data collection
- Analyzes numerical data - Design is rigorously controlled - Statistical analysis is used to summarize and describe findings or to test relationships among variables |
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What is qualitative research?
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- Investigates phenomena through narrative data that describe the phenomena in an in-depth and holistic fashion
- Research design is more flexible and less controlled - Data may be the transcriptions of unstructured interviews - Analysis looks for patterns and themes - Allows for exploration of subjective experiences and understandings |
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What factors must be considered before implementing the results of nursing research into one’s own practice environment?
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- Replication
- Scientific merit - Risk - Clinical merit - Clinical control - Feasibility - Cost - Potential for clinical evaluation |
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How is research used in practice?
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- Critiquing research reports
- Implementing the results of research in practice o Research newsletters o Research meetings o Continuing education programs o Computer networks o Research study guides |