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The relevance of research in nursing
Posted by admin in Implementing Research on June 15th, 2009
The history of nursing research
Florence Nightingale first discussed the importance of applying a research base to nursing practice during the Crimean War. She maintained that practice needed to be up to date and based on the best current research findings available. Unfortunately, for many years afterwards, only minimal reference to nursing research could be found in the nursing literature, and it was not until the 1950s that research reappeared on the nursing agenda. Read the rest of this entry »
Conflicts and solutions
Posted by admin in Implementing Research on June 15th, 2009
Conflicts and solutions: the future of the theory/practice gap
When the theory/practice gap is discussed there is a tendency for nurses to think of theory and practice as separate endeavours. Nurses in practice and nurse educators have tended to focus on how to achieve greater theory/practice integration.
Carr (1986) developed an approach using four factors to help link educational theory with the theory/practice gap. In his model, he considered the following factors: Read the rest of this entry »
nurse and research
Posted by admin in Implementing Research on June 15th, 2009
Nursing has certainly come a long way in the past few years. The role of the nurse has changed hugely; he or she now nurses in a wide variety of different environments, sometimes isolated from other colleagues. He or she may work in the community setting, for example, or as a nurse specialist, caring for patients and prescribing care and medication with a large measure of autonomy. Indeed, specialisation has become an integral part of modern nursing. With this trend has come the absolute requirement that nursing knowledge must be the best and most current available. Read the rest of this entry »