The importance of research in nursing practice.
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Evidence-Based Medicine↗
Biomedical subjects
Chris Bassett
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What is nursing research?
This article is written with ordinary nurses in mind. It clarifies many points relating to research and hopefully demystifies research as a subject. As stated above it is often suggested that nurses immediately meet the word 'research' with resistance or even fear. Perhaps it is better to think not of research but of finding out something important to nursing. Research is nothing more than simple enquiry. Taking this a step further, enquiry could be likened to a problem-solving model very similar to the one used as part of the nursing process.
Humans↗
Quantitative and qualitative research.
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Reading and critiquing research.
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Implementing research in practice.
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Diffusion of Innovation↗
The living will--are you for or against?
A lecturer in nursing discusses whether it is right to sustain life long beyond the dictates of nature merely because we have the medical technology to do so. He argues that nurses should become more involved in the national and legal debates about living wills and that ethics need to evolve and change along with changes in medical science.
Decision Making↗
Nurses' and students' perceptions of care: a phenomenological study.
This article describes a phenomenological study that aimed to explore 15 nurses' and six nursing students' attitudes towards care and caring. Using a qualitative approach, their lived, expressed experiences were documented from tape-recorded interviews. Significant statements were collected and arranged into themes, with examples from the transcripts providing an insight into the nurses' beliefs and feelings. The findings and attitudes expressed underline and reinforce the complexity of the phenomenon of caring. Certain findings are consistent with those in the literature, but the study shows new insights on two themes--'taking risks' and 'supporting care'. The author suggests that the findings have implications for nurse tutors, and that care and caring should be placed at the centre of the nursing curriculum.
Attitude of Health Personnel↗
Nurses' perceptions of care and caring.
Care and caring have been identified as inherently difficult concepts to define, but many authors believe that care is the central and unifying core of nursing. It is vital that nurses understand what care is, with the current issues about measuring and justifying exactly what they do for patients in order to be clear about what good care is. If nurses are to constantly improve the care they give, they need to be clearer about how to care for patients. Nurses need to make sure that they are giving the patients what they want and not what the nurses want. This review of the literature explores nurses' perceptions of care and compares it with what patients want in terms of care. It also highlights some important and interesting differences between what patients and nurses perceive as good care.
Attitude of Health Personnel↗
Are we in it together?
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Costs and Cost Analysis↗
Regulating sexuality.
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Attitude of Health Personnel↗