Nursing Research

Nursing Research Chapter 3
The Building Blocks of Research:
1. The faces and places of Research: When researchers address a problem or answer a question through disciplined research-regardless of the underlying paradigm-they are doing a study (or an investigation or research project). Studies with humans involve two sets of people: 1) those that do the research, 2) those who provide the information.
2. The people who provide information to researchers (investigators) in a study are referred to as subjects, study participants or respondents in quantitative research or study participants or informants in qualitative research; collectively they comprise the sample. Read more

Nursing Research

Types Of Research Report
Types of research reports are these and dissertations, books, conference presentations, and journal articles.
A. Presentations at Professional Conferences:
1. Oral presentations follow a format similar to that used in journal articles. The presenter is typically allotted 10 to 20 minutes to describe key features of the study.
2. In poster sessions, many researchers simultaneously present visual displays summarizing their studies, and conference attendees circulate around the room perusing these display.
Conference presentations are important avenue for communicating research research information.
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Nursing Research Ethic

Ethic and Research
Ethical concepts are especially prominent in nursing research because the line of demarcation between what constitutes the expected practice of nursing and the collection of research data can sometimes get blurred. Furthermore, ethics can create particular challenges because ethical requirements sometimes conflict with the need to produce high-quality evidence for practice. Read more

Research Problem

Research Problems and Paradigms: Researchers usually identify a broad topic, narrow the scope of the problem, and then identify questions consistent with a paradigm of choice. Quantitative studies usually involve concepts that are fairly well developed, about which there is an existing body of literature, and for which reliable methods of measurement have been (or can be) developed. Read more

Purpose of Research

Purpose of Research Literature Reviews: Literature reviews can inspire new research ideas, and help to lay the foundation for studies. A literature review is a crucial early task for most quantitative researchers. Researchers usually summarize relevant literature in the introduction to their reports, regardless of when they perform the literature research. Read more