what is research?

evidence based practice is used for what?

nursing research

The American Nurses Credentialing Center

continuum of participation

Florence nightingale 1850s

first journal on research (nursing research) emerged, 1950s

national center for nursing research established at NIH, 1986

national institute of nursing research (NINR) established, 1993

future direction for research

NINR’s 2010 budget request identified three broad areas of research emphasis

sources of evidence for nursing

source of evidence: tradition

sources of evidence: authority

source of evidence: clinical experience

deductive reasoning

inductive reasoning

sources of evidence: assembled information

source of evidence: disciplined research

paradigm

key paradigms for nursing research

Positivist paradigm

naturalistic paradigm

positivist assumption

naturalist assumption

roles and values of positivist assumption

roles and values of naturalist assumption

post-positivist

research methods

Quantitative research

qualitative research

key points about positivist

key points about naturalist

purposes of nursing research

Prognosis