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Lecture Week #1:Background, Sections of a Research Article,

Abstracts and Introduction Section


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Week #1: Objectives

o Identify the 4 sections of scientific researcharticles

o Determine the purpose of the abstract

o Identify 2 key components of the introductionsection of an article

o Identify 3 elements of a research question

o Understand why operational definitions areimportant


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A research problem is:

a discrepancy between the way things are and

the way they ought to be.

Ref: Donna Diers (1979). Research in Nursing Practice, NY: J.B.

Lippincott Company, p. 12.


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Why Study Research?

o

Why do clinicians, administrators, healthpolicy advocates need to study research?

o How do clinicians use research in theirpractice?

o What do clinicians need to know about

research?


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Evidence-Based Practice:Building Knowledge to Improve Care


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Building Knowledge for Practice

Ref: Brown, SJ (2009) Evidence-Based Nursing: The Research-Practice Connection. Jones & Bartlett Publ. p.16

ClinicalProtocol

Clinical Practice

GuidelineSystematic Research

Review

Findings Findings Findings

from from fromStudy #1 Study #2 Study#3


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Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)

ResearchFindings

PatientValues

ClinicianExpertise

Sackett DL, Straus SE, Richardson WS, et al. (2000). Evidence-Based Medicine. Churchill; Livingstone, NY.


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Nurses: Evidence Based Practice

Ref: Pravikoff, DS et al.(2005) Readiness of US nurses for evidence-based practice. AJN, 105:40-51

o Study purpose

Examines nurses perceptions of their access to tools with which toobtain evidence and whether they have the skills to do so.

o Sample Stratified random sample of 3,000 U.S. RNs

1,097 (37% response rate) completed survey; 760 clinicians

o Results Nurses feel more confident asking colleagues or peers and

searching the Internet or Web than using bibliographic databases

such as PubMed or CINAHL to find specific information.

67% sought information from colleague. Dont understand or value research

Have little training to use tools to help them find evidence on which

to base practice


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N=749 Respondents (AJN, 2005)

How often do you need information to support

your nursing role?

28% = Often (several times a week)33% = Regularly (weekly)

27% = Occasionally (1-2 times a week)

12% = Seldom (< once a month)


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Question

o What are the components of evidence-basedpractice?

A= Research findings

B = Patient values

C = Clinical expertise

D = All of the above


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Question - Answer

o What are the components of evidence-basedpractice?

A= Research findings

B = Patient values

C = Clinical expertise

D = All of the above

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