Evidence-Based Practice
A good understanding and evaluating evidence in order to apply it to nurse’s practice is of importance to the nursing practice. According to Ellis (2019), due to challenging and changing regulations and patients’ power in health care facilities, there is increasing need for nurses to justify their decisions made about the patient’s health. Therefore, there is the need for nurses to acquire know how of to identify evidence for informing practices and how to apply the evidence in practice. The nurses help enable evidence-based practice in health care facilities through reducing or subsidizing care cost for the patients not using medical insurance cover. Similarly nurses can help by making diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up clinics to improve patients’ health outcome.
Role of Nurses in Research
In research, the role of nurses is vital as they easily coordinate the principal investigator day to day. Nursing in research prompts an in-depth understanding of the problem rationale being researched on and providing a comprehensive know how of the process to be undertaken in research and the guidelines to be followed (Nieswiadomy & Bailey, 2018). Therefore, some of the roles of nurses in research include preparing for a research and following it up through to obtain results which are to be used to improve or change a particular clinical trial.
Ethical Concerns in Nursing Research
Nursing research necessitates for dealing with of the ethical issues that are bound to pop up during research. According to Nieswiadomy & Bailey, (2018), the participation of the research should be out of one’s free will and not by coercion. The participants should be given liberty to withdraw from the research at any point without being subjected to any negative consequences. On acquisition of informed consent, the participants should be informed about the associated risks, benefits, and what the research is about before deciding on whether to participate. Similarly, participants anonymity should be ensured by not revealing patient’s personal information. Issuing transparent results is an ethical concern in nursing practice as it prompts for honesty, credibility, and reliability of the findings.
Approaches in Nursing Research
Nursing research helps answer questions on the problems faced in clinical practice, administration, and education. The research paradigm in nursing directs how the research questions are formulated, plans how the formulated questions will be investigated, selects the appropriate research design and methods or approaches to be used (Nieswiadomy & Bailey, 2018). The approach selected for use either qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-method involves methods of data collection, analyzation, and interpretation. Qualitative is subjective approach which involves using peer reviewed secondary data and experiences to collect data while quantitative is an objective approach used to obtain numerical data. Mixed-method approach employs the use of qualitative and quantitative approaches sequentially as one is used to reinforce the other.
Criteria for Using Research in Nursing Research
Application of nursing research findings effectively helps improve the patients’ health outcomes and promotes the development of nursing as a discipline. The impacts of the findings are gauged depending on the academic level of the findings, the value system, the benefits, and the clinical setting to enable application of the findings (Nieswiadomy & Bailey, 2018). The quality of the research to be used is evaluated as objects and conclusions to be made must be peer reviewed. Similarly, the quantity criteria is dependent upon data calculations and a quantitative model made.
Available Resources for Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing
Evidence-based nursing practice resources are the peer reviews made on published data that is effectiveness, feasible, sustainable, and transferable about nursing practice and research. The evidence-based practice resources falls under systematic data that encompasses a particular issue and non-systematic which may include meta-analysis of data. CINAHL is research tool used by nurses and other healthcare providers,
3-Point Likert Scale
To evaluate the study, a 3-point Likert Scale is used to gauge whether the study’s goals and objectives were met. The Likert Scale offers low, average, and high score options on the quality of the presentation made. The question asked is; how the study met its goals and objectives.
References
Ellis, P. (2019). Evidence-Based Practice in nursing. Learning Matters.
Nieswiadomy, R. M., & Bailey, C. (2018). Foundations of nursing research.