NSG 3301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Patient Safety, Deductive Reasoning, Determinism
8 Jan 2017
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Nurses are expected to be lifelong learners with knowledge about new findings and processes in the healthcare field. Research systematic inquiry that strives to answer questions/solve problems: ultimate goal expand and refine knowledge. Nursing research designed to develop evidence about issues of importance to many stakeholders. Evidence-based practice (ebp) the use of the best clinical evidence when making care decisions. Incorporation of this leads to more appropriate, cost-effective, optimal health outcomes: every nurse"s responsibility, continuum can be . Indirect research consumers, read reports, develop new skills. Direct actively participating in collection of research. 1859 florence nightingale (notes on nursing); research about environmental factors that affect health. 1900s early studies focused on nursing education (expansion of university nursing programs); later studies focused on supply/demand of nurses and efficiency of procedures. 1950s government funds nursing research (establishment of nursing research journal) 1960s practice-oriented research, seeds for ebp planted.
