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RESEARCH
What are your feelings about doing research? excited full of dread fearful curious angry ready for it to be over?!
Why RESEARCH?
One study “says” to do one thing; another study says that I should do the opposite
Not sure which is better?
Something is not right?
Curious? Finding solutions?
Why get EXCITED with RESEARCH?
“The essence of all research originates in CURIOSITY - a desire to find out how and why things happen”
Gaining new knowledge
to improve pt. care
Evidence based
practice = decision
making
Expands nursing
practice
Reinforce identity of
nursing as a profession
IMPORTANCE of RESEARCH?
Involves decision making - what methods will help to answer a research question?
Is flexible - multiple possibilities, each with its own strengths/weaknesses
Systemic Is a circular process
INTRODUCTION to RESEARCH
What do I want to know?
Does anyone else know
anything about this?
I’ll make an educated
guess
Here’s what I’m going to
do to try to answer my
question.
INTRODUCTION to RESEARCH
I’ll try to make sense
out of all this info I’ve
collected.
What did I find? Was
my hunch supported?
What do I want to know
now?
INTRODUCTION to RESEARCH
Nurses Job Satisfaction•Overworked?•Stress?•Poor quality of life?•No motivation?•Affects performance?•Want a change?
A Research Question
Defining the problem (area of research)
Area where knowledge can be advanced
Review related literature
Propose research question
1. IDENTIFY RESEARCH AREA
MOST IMPORTANT Study Population Design Sampling Plan Define how will data
be measured/collected
Pilot Study?
2. RESEARCH DESIGN
SETTINGLocation of the studyWill affect the findingsSAMPLINGChoosing/ selecting subjectsMust be representative of the populationRandom?
2. RESEARCH DESIGN
Data Collection - according to plan
Organization of the data May be the longest
phase of the research process
Systemic
3. DATA COLLECTION
Interpret findings Draw conclusions Hypothesis is
supported or rejected? How best to utilize
findings? New question
formulated?
4. DATA ANALYSIS
Share findings with colleagues
May report findings in journal articles, oral presentations, poster presentations
Utilize findings - use in nursing practice
5. PUBLISH & SHARE
Researcher manipulates or controls variable(s) and observes effect in other variable(s)
New intervention/treatment/practice Evaluates cause and effect
relationship EXAMPLE:
effectiveness of High dose Vitamin C for wound healing
EXPERIMENTAL
Characterizing percentage or amount of cases/ factors
Can be based on social demography EXAMPLE• percentage of poorly referred cases from
clinics• Percentage of patients’ with good hand
hygiene• carers’ knowledge on management of bed
sore
PREVALENCE
CROSS SECTIONAL
Snapshot To investigate for
links between variables
example:• carers’
knowledge on management of bed sore
Relationships between variables
at least 2 variables for the same group of individuals
EXAMPLE• correlation between age and
nurses’ grades with knowledge on Medication Error Reporting
• Relationship between patient education level and AOR discharge
CORRELATION
Nursing problems- errors, knowledge, job satisfaction, quality of
life Patient demography- treatment failure, poor wound healing, poor
compliance, satisfaction with treatment Factors- Factors for AOR DC, default, contamination Disease- prevalence, risk factors, outcome
IDEAS?
Find questions / problems
Find for available evidences
Design the research Try out? Ask for help
HOW TO START