W1_Nursing Research & Evidence-Based Practice

• These notes cover various aspects of nursing research, evidence-based practice, and understanding research resources.

Research Participant Selection

• Selecting participants involves offering incentives, obtaining informed consent, staff recruitment, and equal opportunity.
• The nurse offers an Amazon gift card for participation in research, gets informed consent from participants, asks staff members to recruit willing participants, and places a flyer above the research in a common location so that all clients have an equal opportunity to participate

Peer Review Process

• Peer review is the process of selecting research for conferences and evaluating research manuscripts for publication by experts in a common field
• It does not include the creation and study of new metrics based on the social web for analyzing and informing scholarship, an indicator of a researcher's lifetime in their field, and a way to measure the visibility of research by calculating a ratio of current citation of the journal to all citations in the same time.

Rational for a Research Study

• The most important rationale for a specific research study is demands of the research question.

Poor Research Question Example

• An example of a poor research question is "Arm exercises in the preoperative."

Evidence-Based Practice

• Evidence-based practice involves the best scientific evidence, clinical experience, and patient values/preferences.

Scholarly Sources

• Government websites and peer-reviewed journals are considered scholarly sources.
• .com websites, Wikipedia, and blogs are not considered scholarly sources.

Barriers to Research

• A significant barrier to conducting a research project is time constraints and the lack of research participants.

Beneficence in Research

• Beneficence in research involves maximizing benefits and minimizing possible harm.

Researchable Problems

• Appropriate sources for developing researchable problems in a community include professional literature, clinical observations at the local Health Center, performance improvement studies of similar communities, and personal experience of local citizens.

Research Study Steps

• After finding a problem to research, the next step is to conduct a literature review

Matching Research Terms

• Magnet Status: Organizational commitment to research and nursing excellence
• Blinded review: Researchers' names are not available to expert analysts
• Replication: Research that yields comparable results
• Peer review: Research reviewed by experts in the field of study

Researcher's Priority

• In a research study, a nurse researcher must protect personal information like email address, internet Protocol IP addresses, telephone number, and fax numbers

Full Disclosure in Research

• Full disclosure in a research project involves providing details available to facilitate informed consent.

Online Class Statements

• Students can use self-paced class time to read required reading before or while completing Edapts assignment.
• Students will have to plan class time on a calendar to complete coursework and will need to plan time to study in addition to scheduled class time to complete coursework.
• Students will need a variety of resources that is based on individual study habits and may

Academic Support Resources

• Academic support resources include program resources, English as a second language (ESL) resources, webinar schedules and recordings, specific course resources, book one-on-one virtual tutoring, and virtual center of academic support.

Primary Source of Information

• Systemic reviews are an important and primary source of information.

Course Schedule location

• The course schedule is located on the syllabus.