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Chapter 1 - Introduction To Nursing Research
Chapter 1 - Introduction To Nursing Research
I. Definitions
a. Research
b. Nursing research
b. Education
d. Cost-benefit
III. Role of nurses related to research-In 1981, the ANA commission on Nursing
Research outlined the roles of various levels of nurses related to nursing research.
practice-research utilization
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b. Masters prepared nurses will:
i. Conduct investigations
research findings
i. Outcomes research
iii. Utilization
vii. Dissemination
V. Sources of knowledge
a. Tradition
b. Authority
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c. Human experience
i. May be restricted
e. Intuition
f. Logical reasoning
i. Inductive reasoning
g. Disciplined research
influencing results
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4. Moral or ethical issues cannot be empirically tested
vii. Assumptions
objectivity
imposed control.
viii. Disadvantages
1. Not generalizable
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2. Humans are the instrument for gathering qualitative data-
c. Multiple paradigms
a. Basic
b. Applied
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