NUR 80A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: World View, Professional Responsibility, Informed Consent
30 Nov 2017
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Nursing research: week 1 she660 9 am 12 pm janet. yamada@ryerson. ca. Reflective practice: review the past to evaluate if changes are necessary in practical settings. Purposes of nursing research: basic research, extend knowledge, to discover general principles, to better understand processes, applied research, solutions to existing problems, how principles can be used to solve problems, effectiveness of nursing interventions. Identification qualitative, to help document and realize the issue. Description both, to describe the issue in question, prevalence and incidence rates. Explanation both, to understand why the factors occurred + relationships between factors. Prediction and control quantitative, to help anticipate further issues and have proactive interventions. Was in the description mode figuring out the prevalence and incidence rates. 1900"s 1950"s: started to research and develop nursing education. 1960"s: nursing journals accelerated clinical nursing research focus, improving patient care, role of theory. 1980"s: practice-oriented research continues to be an important focus in nursing: shifted to research utilization and evidence-based medicine.
