Class 2: Role of research in nursing

Evidence based

1. Systematic, explicitally impirical

2. Using best evidence to make patient care decisions

Evidence informed

1. Similar to evidence based, but also includes opinion/personal way of knowing

2. Involves patient preference, culture, religion etc

Bias

Tendency to support or oppose a person or idea

Research and bias

Research is important to minimize bias and undertsand phenomena

Phenomena

1. Occurences, situations or facts that can be detected through the senses

2. Events that are observable or measurable, can be quanitifed numerically

3. Nurses focus on experiences that are hard to quantify (pain, grief etc)

Qualitative Research

Data is derived from language, stories, observation or meanings

Quantitatve Research

Measures/quantifies finding using numbers/statistics

Study Design

A set of methods that align with the research question and problem

Can include clinical trials (randomized control trials) or descriptive (surveys)

Research links together:

1. Theory

2. Education

3. Nursing practice

Nursing research process 4 steps

1. Identifying a research problem

2. Collecting data

3. Analyzing results

4. Sharing findings

Role of nurses in research

Engaging with research (read, comprehend, apply using critical appraisl skills

Contributing/conducting/leading research

Quality improvement inititatives

Different from research

Improve or measure quality of healthcare services

Doesnt involve research participants (therefore doesnt need ethics reviews)

Follows some research processes

Knowledge translation

Sharing and using knowledge to improve the healthcare system

Involves applicaiton of knowledge (impr0ved policies, procedures and best practice standards)

Dissemination

Sharing research findings:

Peer reviewed publications/journals

Conferences

Research priorites

• Indigenous and other vulnerable and/or equity seeking communities
• Chronic disease management and care delivery across space and time
• Home care and primary health care nursing
• Care of older adults across diverse care contexts
• Roles, scopes of practice, and value of RNS, and/or NPs to health care
• Nursing care, quality improvement, and patient safety
• Nursing education outcomes

Knowledge development in nursing

1. Knowledge gap

2. Knowledge generation

3. Knowledge distribution

4. Knowledge adaptation

5. Knowledge review and revisio

Knowledge gap

Nurses ask questions that require answers from experts in that field

Absence of theoretical/empirical knowledge

Knowledge generation

Research questions are devised about a phenomenon

Qualitative and quantitative methods are used to answer the question

Knowledge Distribution

Knowledge is shared with professionals through formal methods (presentations, journals etc) or informal methods (media, internet, social networks)

Knowledge adoption

New knowledge is used in practice and applied to develop new policies and protocols

Knowledge review and revision

new health issuyes lead to new questions

old knowledge is revised or excluded

new research is conducted