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Nursing Research
Nursing Research
Board Review
Research defined
• A systematic search for
understanding, an attempt to gain
solutions, discover and develop an
organized body of knowledge
Nursing Research
• Concerned with the systematic
study and assessment of nursing
problems or phenomena, finding
ways to improve nursing practice
and patient care through creative
studies, initiating change and taking
action to make new knowledge
useful to nursing
Foundation of nursing
knowledge
• Customs and traditions
• Authority
• Staff development and experience
General types of research
• Basic Research
– Search for new knowledge
• Applied Research
– Application of knowledge to solve
problems
• Action Research
– Study of certain problem where
conclusions are drawn
Characteristics of
research
1. Involves gathering of new data from
new sources
2. Directed towards the solution of
problem
3. Analytical and empirical
4. Requires expertise
5. Logical, honest and innovative
6. Can be replicated
7. Carefully recorded
Purposes of NURSING
research
1. Provide scientific basis for nursing
practice
2. Develop new techniques, tools. New
knowledge
3. Provide solutions to problems
concerning health
4. Help determine the areas of need in
nursing
5. Prepare oneself to be a diligent
researcher. It is on duty of a NURSE.
NP and NS
• Nursing process is similar to
research process
• both consist of a number of closely
related activities that overlap
• Both involve problem solving and
the use of logical systems of
inductive and deductive reasoning
Overview of the step in NR
9. Formulate conclusions
1. Probability sampling
• Individuals are given chance to be
selected
1. Participant observation=
investigator blends with subject
2. Non-participant= use of weighing
scale, BP to monitor quantitative
changes
Step 6: Observation
Advantages Disadvantages
1. Confidentiality
2. Autonomy
3. Beneficence
4. Non-maleficence
5. Justice