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Publications and source records attributed to H R Feldman.
This article describes an undergraduate nursing research course that focuses on research utilization. Critical appraisal skills were used to critique articles that formed the bases of a research utilization project. Groups of students formed research utilization teams and developed proposals for identifying, initiating, and evaluating a clinical innovation.
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This article explores the gap that currently exists between nursing research and nursing practice. The aim is to promote the conversion of new knowledge into practical innovations. Barriers to research utilization in practice settings come from both the academic and clinical arenas. Innovative models and strategies are needed to overcome these barriers. The purposes and value of research utilization and the clinical and academic strategies that facilitate research are discussed. Supporting clinical studies are provided as exemplars.
In addressing what constitutes nursing research in the 1990s, approaches to conducting nursing research and examples of studies are discussed in the context of historical forces. The early studies were characteristically educational in focus and quantitative by design. Nursing research has come a long way in regard to foci of the questions asked, diversity of approaches to knowledge development, and sophistication of research methods. Three approaches are described to illustrate the diversity in nursing research: quantitative, qualitative, and triangulation.
All nurses have a part to play in nursing research, even those with elementary skills in research. This article introduces nursing research to nurses in clinical practice who may not be familiar with the research process, but who can use research findings to guide their practice. It is also intended to foster collaboration between researchers and practitioners, so that they will work together through research to establish a specialized knowledge base for nursing.
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This descriptive study focused on self-esteem and types of attributional style, and their relationship to sensation and distress pain ratings. Negative correlations were hypothesized between self-esteem and each pain rating, between positive internal type of attributional style and each pain rating, and between negative external type of attributional style and each pain rating. One hundred and nine healthy, non-institutionalized males, aged 21-50 years, participated in this study. The Tennessee Self-Concept Scale and revised Attributional Style Questionnaire were administered prior to the cold pressor test, a safe, short duration cold water hand immersion procedure for pain induction. Sensation and distress pain ratings were measured using visual analogue scales, and a pain history was obtained. The predicted relationship between self-esteem and distress pain ratings was supported. All other correlations were not statistically significant. A pain history question, asking subjects to rate their pain tolerance as compared with other people, was significantly related to both pain ratings, the correlations being negative.
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This article deals with a theory of psychological differentiation, research supporting this theory and identified indicators of differentiation, and studies that connect several of these indicators with the phenomenon of pain. Problems for investigation are posed concerning the relationships between differentiation indicators and pain threshold, pain tolerance, relief measures, attention to pain, control, and counterirritation An understanding of the kinds of variables affecting the pain experience can lead to a clearer perception and more astute evaluation of that experience and a more organized approach to the implementation of nursing care.
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