NURS301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Systematic Review, Randomized Controlled Trial, Meta-Analysis
16 Dec 2016
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State the significance of research to the practice of nursing. Discuss the course outline and address any questions and concerns. Describe how research, education, and practice are related to each other. Evaluate the nurse"s role in the research process. Define key concepts in the philosophy of science. Differentiate between qualitative and quantitative research paradigms. Describe the relationships among theory, research, and practice. Research is the systematic, rigorous, logical investigation that aims to answer questions about nursing phenomena. Identify and differentiate between the varied ways of knowing. Identify assumptions underlying the positivist, post-positivist, critical, and interpretive/constructivist views of research. Phenomena can be defined as occurrences, circumstances, or facts that are perceptible by the senses (e. g. , experiences of and expressions of pain). Rn role in research includes: consumer, research question generator. Protector of research participants: research change agent they take up the new info founded by research, and update their practice to patients.
