Module 1a Intro to Nursing Research

Summary

This module introduces nursing research, emphasizing its role in advancing the profession and improving patient outcomes. It explains that research is a systematic pursuit of knowledge, derived from curiosity and the desire to solve problems. Nursing research validates and refines existing practices while generating new knowledge that informs evidence-based care. The module highlights its importance for professional growth, legal duty, and healthcare improvement, while also addressing common barriers such as time constraints, financial issues, and misconceptions. Ultimately, research is presented as an essential, ongoing responsibility for nurses to ensure safe, effective, and progressive nursing practice.

Takeaways

• 😀 Nursing is a profession that relies on a well-defined and organized body of knowledge, which must be continuously expanded and improved.
• 😀 Nursing research integrates principles from social, physical, natural, health sciences, and humanities to enhance nursing practice.
• 😀 Research is fundamentally the systematic search for answers, solutions, and new knowledge through rigorous methods.
• 😀 Nursing research validates, refines existing knowledge, and generates new knowledge that directly or indirectly improves nursing practice.
• 😀 The primary purpose of nursing research is to improve patient outcomes and the quality of healthcare services.
• 😀 Research in nursing benefits both the profession and clients, influencing rehabilitative, therapeutic, preventive, and other aspects of care.
• 😀 Nurses are expected to use evidence-based practices, supplementing their experience with research to ensure safe and compassionate care.
• 😀 Challenges preventing nurses from conducting research include lack of time, high patient care demands, insufficient resources, and misconceptions about research.
• 😀 Conducting nursing research is a professional duty, as stated in the Philippine Nursing Act of 2002, Section 28, Letter E.
• 😀 Barriers such as financial constraints, the complexity of research processes, and misunderstanding of research purpose must be addressed to promote nursing research.
• 😀 Nursing research also brings secondary benefits, including professional recognition, prestige, and potential financial gains, but these are secondary to improving patient care.
• 😀 Continuous research helps debunk outdated practices and refine new interventions, ensuring that nursing care evolves with evidence and knowledge.

Q & A

What is one of the defining characteristics of a profession according to the transcript?

A profession possesses a well-defined body of specialized knowledge that practitioners continuously seek to extend and improve through education, practice, and scientific methods.

What are the expected learning outcomes of Module 1: Introduction to Nursing Research?

By the end of the module, students should be able to integrate principles from various sciences and humanities in nursing research, explain research and nursing research, differentiate between quantitative and qualitative research, appraise levels of research evidence, and distinguish the phases of the nursing research process.

How is research defined contextually in the transcript?

Research is derived from the French word 'rechercher,' meaning to seek or search. It involves continuous and repeated efforts to find answers, collect data in a rigorously controlled manner, and provide solutions for prediction or explanation.

What is nursing research and why is it important?

Nursing research is the scientific process that validates and refines existing knowledge and generates new knowledge that influences nursing practice. It is important because it improves patient outcomes, advances nursing care, and contributes to the healthcare system.

What are the primary and secondary purposes of nursing research?

The primary purpose is to improve nursing practice and patient outcomes. Secondary purposes may include financial gain, career opportunities, and prestige for the researcher, but these are secondary to improving patient care.

According to the transcript, why must nurses perform research?

Nurses must perform research to ensure evidence-based practice, improve patient care, generate new knowledge, refine existing practices, and fulfill professional and legal obligations, such as those stated in the Philippine Nursing Act of 2002 (Republic Act 9173).

What are some barriers that prevent nurses from performing research?

Barriers include the perception that research is useless, high patient care demands, belief that research is only for highly intelligent nurses, financial constraints, the tedious nature of research, and confusion about what nursing research entails.

How does nursing research contribute to the advancement of the nursing profession?

It helps nurses document and evaluate their contributions to patient health, refine nursing practices, introduce new evidence-based interventions, and ensure that the profession continuously improves through scientific methods.

What role does prior experience play in nursing research according to the transcript?

While experience is valuable in delivering nursing care, it should be complemented with evidence from research to ensure practices are safe, effective, and based on current knowledge rather than tradition or assumptions alone.

What are some areas covered by nursing research?

Nursing research covers rehabilitative, therapeutic, preventive, and other aspects of nursing care, as well as the preparation and training of nurses and healthcare personnel involved in patient care.

How has the demand for evidence-based practice changed nursing research expectations?

The increasing demand for patient-centered and evidence-based care has made research a critical duty for nurses, not just an optional activity, to ensure care practices are up-to-date and effective.