NURS 1015 Lecture 11: Week 11- Nursing Research
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The scientific investigation of nursing practice problems to generate new knowledge that is essential to the quality of nursing care (cna, 1995) The systematic, rigorous, logical investigation that aims to answer questions about nursing phenomena . Trial and error in the process of giving care. Conscious and judicious use of the current best" evidence relating to the care of clients and the delivery of health care services . Research, clinical expertise, client preferences and other available resources. Research utilization- when knowledge from research is translated into practice. Personal knowing- knowledge and attitudes derived from personal self-understanding and empathy, including imaging one"s self in the patient"s position. Ethics: moral knowledge in nursing- factual knowledge from science, or other external sources, that can be empirically verified. Describing and explaining phenomena, predicting the results of interventions and controlling undesirable outcomes. Moves from the point in a study where a question is posed to the point in a study where the answer is found.