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Research Process & Evidence-Based Nursing
NURS 491
Contents:
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Sections
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Overview of nursing research:
1. define research and its uses in nursing practice
2. describe the importance of research in nursing
3. explain the nurses’ role in research
4. understand the historical land marks affecting nursing research and trends directing nursing research in the new millennium
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5.examine sources of evidence for nursing practice
6 .determine the purposes of nursing research
7.Comprehend the key concepts in qualitative and quantitative researches
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8. Understanding the major steps in research process of qualitative and quantitative research.
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B- preliminary steps in the research process:
1. develop and refine research problem and identify the source of research problem
2. Examine specific types of research (clinical trials, outcome research…… Met analysis, Mixed methods.
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3. communicate problem statement, purposes, research questions, aims, and hypothesis
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4. Find and review related studies in the literature using traditional and technological methods.
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5. Identify and explain the dimensions of research designs for qualitative and quantitative studies
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7. Understand and describe basic sampling concepts and types in both quantitative and qualitative researches
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8. Determine major types of data for nursing studies and key dimensions of data collection methods including self reports, observation, and biophysiological methods in quantitative and qualitative studies.
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9. Evaluate data quality by assessing measurement, validity, and reliability in qualitative and quantitative research.
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10. Understand methods of data analysis including, level of measurement, descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, bi and multivariate statistics.
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C- Critical appraisal and utilization of nursing research:
1. Read different types of research reports, and the content of research journal article.
2. Factors affecting research result utilization in the practical , educational and administrative field.
3. Understand the specific guidelines for critiquing research reports.
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4. Examine the ethical issues including federal regulations, policy and procedure to protect study participants.
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5. Using research in evidence based nursing practice.
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6. legal and ethical issues in research
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Course book
Polit,D.F.,& Beck, C.T. Essentials of nursing research, methods,appraisal and utilization.(sixth edition), lippincott Williams &Williams Co. 2006.
Supplementary references
1- Babbie, Earl. The practice of social research.(10th
edition) Belmont, CA: Wadsworth publishing Co. 2005
2- Patten L.M. proposing empirical research, a guide to the fundamentals, (2nd, edition) , pyrczak
publishina.2006
Other Information Resources
Agency for healthcare research and quality www.ahrq.gov
NIH- National library of medicine http://www.nih.gov/nlm/
NIH-National institute of nursing research- http://www.nih.gov/ninr/
USF virtual library http://lib.usf.edu/virtual/
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