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Research in nursing requires a broader study of the nursing profession, its
concepts, theories, principles and policies or guidelines inherent in the practice of
nursing. It also dwells on historical, ethical, legal and moral standards as well as the
duties and responsibilities of a nurse practitioner and the implications of these to
individual client and to society.

The Goals of Nursing Research

Nursing research is important within the context of promotion and maintenance
of health, prevention and cure of illness, the habilitation and rehabilitation of the
disabled and the handicapped whose life depends on others for survival. As a basic
tool for knowledge acquisition in nursing, research has specific goals to achieve:

1. Efficiency and Effectiveness in Nursing Care
The primary reason for conducting nursing research is to foster optimum care
for clients. The nursing profession exists to provide service to society based on
accurate knowledge. The scientific method is conceived to be the most
objective, systematic way of obtaining this knowledge.
With nurses as principal investigators, it is research intended to identify clinical
problems, their causes, diagnoses, nursing care interventions and evaluation of
nursing care outcome. Research findings, as basis of knowledge, enables
nurses to describe, explain, predict and control phenomena related to the health
of clients, hence, nursing care can be implemented systematically, and safely.

2. Worthiness and Value of the Nursing Profession to Society
Health care is indispensable to man's survival, and nursing care is one of its
major components. To enable nurses to deliver quality care is to make use of
the most recent research findings that provide proofs or evidences to validate
and justify the appropriateness and adequacy of nursing care. Nursing research
is concerned with the prevention of diseases and the habilitation or
rehabilitation of clients for a more meaningful and productive life.

3. Identifying, Implementing and Evaluating Effective Health Care
Modalities
Nursing research enables nurses to cautiously assess individuals and groups,
as basis tor plannin8 accurate nursing interventions. Inclusion of all the factors
such as the biological, physiological, social, behavioural, spiritual and
environmental components that influence health and disease in man's stages
of development have become the basis for nursing research which will
ultimately lead to accurate decisions and actions.

4. Clinical Nursing Research has the Potential for providing Quality Care of
Clients. It is concerned with the following tasks:
a. The systematic study of nursing problems or phenomena, using the
nursing process of assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating
nursing care.

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