Nursing 2250A/B- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 71 pages long!)
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Week 1 pre readings chapters 1 and 6 of part one. Nursing is growing rapidly and the specific evidence based knowledge provided by research allows nurses to be empowered and more able to care for their clients. Benefits of research can include: saving money (eliminating errors that waste time or resources, staying up to date with research helps an individual become an intelligent consumer of research. They understand the critical thinking and knowledge it requires to judge the merit of the evidence on a certain subject. Nurses play an important role in research because it"s often their ideas and observations that lead to investigations or that provide the framework for a research analysis. Major factors in developing nursing research was the research training and also funding. Majority of nursing research geared toward evidence informed practice. In canada, the cna"s professional code of ethics outlines the ethical standards for practice, which can include patients" rights with regards to practice and research.