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Nursing Research I

Module 1: Introduction to Nursing Research

Introduction

Explain why Research starts with a problem and ends with a problem

All disciplines, including nursing, depend on scientific investigation to enrich the
pool of knowledge, deepen context and improve field practice. Nursing emerged as a
profession when nurses started using systematic, orderly, and objective methods of
seeking information derived from research. Since then, nursing research has
progressed to the extent that most members of the nursing profession are motivated
to base their practice on results of research instead of traditional practice. In this
regard, the goal of nursing science is to strengthen the body of abstract knowledge
from continuous scientific researches and logical analysis capable of being translated
to nursing practice.

Research serves the need of nurses for direction in helping solve today's
problems in sustaining human life in the face of technological changes that threaten
that life. Nurses must have access to and understanding of patients feelings when
contemplating on nursing care interventions to alleviate man's health problems.

Research problems may arise from the altruistic desire to improve nursing
practice through more effective ways of helping patients recover from their illness or
cope with health problems. For example, the nurse might be concerned with the best
approach in teaching client with Diabetes Melitus who is expected to have other actual
or potential health problems. This is an example of an immediate problem that needs
a solution. Scientific research therefore, is concerned with the best approach in
teaching people how to promote health and prevent illness, in general, and care of a
diabetic client, in particular. Hence, scientific research is primarily concerned with the
ability to generalize research findings and use these to generate new theories and
improve professional practice.

As nurses assume more challenging roles in health care, problems expectedly
arise. Problems to look into are those which call for the efficient and effective
implementation of the nursing process to ensure the quality of services delivered by
nurses at the hospital and in the community. Today, more researches on vital aspects
of health care are being undertaken which nurses have long been tasked to perform
but have not been formally probed.

Vital aspects in health care delivery that concerns nurses most relate to the
nursing care management and research, particularly on discharge planning, nutrition,
counseling, spiritual ministry and patient teaching.

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