Current Trends in Nursing Research
CURRENT TREND AND ISSUES OF NURSING | Current Trend in Nursing Research
What is research? Focused on uncovering new knowledge to help understand phenomena, answer questions, or address problems, Goal directed, A systematic process of inquiry.
Research means “to search again or carefully examine” (Langford 2001). “A systematic study of problems in patient care.”
Abdellah: “A systematic detailed attempt to discover or confirm facts that relate to a specific problem to improve the practice and profession of nursing.” Polit and Hungler: “A systematic search for knowledge about issues of importance to nursing.”
Henderson: “A study of the problems in practice relating to the effects of nursing.”
What makes nursing research? Nursing research is “a scientific process that validates and refines existing knowledge and generates new knowledge, which directly and indirectly influences nursing practice” (Burns & Grove, 2005)
Definition of Nursing Research: An organized, systematic, data-based critical scientific inquiry or investigation into a specific problem, undertaken with the objective of finding answers or solutions to it.
GOALS OF NURSING RESEARCH
1. Improve nursing care
2. Improve patient care outcomes
3. Improve quality of life
4. Define and expand the scope of nursing practice
Utilization of Nursing Research Findings 1. To restore health 2. .2. To prevent illness. 3. 3. To minimize the effects of acute & chronic illness & disability.
Prone Areas of Nursing Research:
Nursing Service: Cancer- End life care, Geriatric nursing- Feeding tubes, HIV/AIDS, Diabetes, CVS disease, CKD, CLD, HTN, Pain etc.
Nursing Education: Assessment Methods, Subject Placement, Attitude of Students, Problems of students, Application of Theory in to practice etc.
Areas of special research: Chronic illness experiences, Cultural and ethnic considerations, End-of-life/palliative care research, Health promotion and disease prevention, Implications of genetic advances,
What is research? Focused on uncovering new knowledge to help understand phenomena, answer questions, or address problems, Goal directed, A systematic process of inquiry.
Research means “to search again or carefully examine” (Langford 2001). “A systematic study of problems in patient care.”
Abdellah: “A systematic detailed attempt to discover or confirm facts that relate to a specific problem to improve the practice and profession of nursing.” Polit and Hungler: “A systematic search for knowledge about issues of importance to nursing.”
Henderson: “A study of the problems in practice relating to the effects of nursing.”
What makes nursing research? Nursing research is “a scientific process that validates and refines existing knowledge and generates new knowledge, which directly and indirectly influences nursing practice” (Burns & Grove, 2005)
Definition of Nursing Research: An organized, systematic, data-based critical scientific inquiry or investigation into a specific problem, undertaken with the objective of finding answers or solutions to it.
GOALS OF NURSING RESEARCH
1. Improve nursing care
2. Improve patient care outcomes
3. Improve quality of life
4. Define and expand the scope of nursing practice
Utilization of Nursing Research Findings 1. To restore health 2. .2. To prevent illness. 3. 3. To minimize the effects of acute & chronic illness & disability.
Prone Areas of Nursing Research:
Nursing Service: Cancer- End life care, Geriatric nursing- Feeding tubes, HIV/AIDS, Diabetes, CVS disease, CKD, CLD, HTN, Pain etc.
Nursing Education: Assessment Methods, Subject Placement, Attitude of Students, Problems of students, Application of Theory in to practice etc.
Areas of special research: Chronic illness experiences, Cultural and ethnic considerations, End-of-life/palliative care research, Health promotion and disease prevention, Implications of genetic advances,