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b. Improving nursing practice and patient care through creative and
scientific studies, knowledge of health and the promotion of health
throughout the life-span;
c. Identifying nursing interventions that can help individuals respond
efficiently and effectively to actual or potential health problems; and
d. The initiation and assessment of change as a result o nursing care to
clients, and incisive efforts to make these new knowledge useful in
nursing practice.

In a sense, research promotes creative thinking and the ability to move away
from the status quo or traditional practice. This allows nurses to keep pace with current
trends of performing tasks systematically and scientifically.
Research enables nurses to think critically at a conceptual and scholarly level,
since their inferences are validated by factual data. It requires the nurse to see
something concrete and relate this to known theory that explains why such things exist.
Likewise, research requires precision and clarity of data to articulate what is clearly
seen and discovered.
Finally, research is the most important way of improvin8 nursing care as it
stimulates inquisitive, curious and questioning minds for efficient and effective way of
implementing nursing care modalities. A nurse who is research-oriented is held in high
regard, and gains professional standing aimed at improving nursing practice and
community health.

Lesson 2: Importance of Nursing Research

Research in nursing is vital to the well-being of mankind due to its valuable tasks,
as follows:

1. Gathers data or information on nursing situations or conditions about
which little knowledge is available.

Information is important in designing appropriate nursing interventions
and as basis for qualifying the extent of nursing care needed in the solution
of problems.

2. Provides scientific knowledge base from which nursing theories emerge
and develop.
Consequently, research findings lead to the development of nursing
theories which serves as bases and guide to nursing practice and future
researches.

3. Helps correct, clarify and validate perceptions and expands these.

Knowledge is never absolute and must be continuously tested and
validated through research. The value of knowledge may either increase or
diminish through research depending on the extent of its use by a
professional discipline.

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