Nursing Education

Term Paper # 101006

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Nursing Education

This paper discuses the professional development of nurses through the inclusion of research activities in their education at the baccalaureate level.

1,220 words () | 14 sources | APA | 2007 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that present day nursing practices guided by research-based evidence are replacing the old paradigm of anecdotal experience handed down from mentor to student. The author points out that the inquisitiveness, critical thinking and methods required for evaluating and creating research are critical to upholding the standard of nursing care. The paper stresses that the readiness to accept and appreciate evidence-based practice, as well as ascertain obstacles to its practice, are important issues that need to be addressed by the nursing professional both individually and as part of a group or unit.

Table of Contents:
Review of Literature
Strategies for Implementation
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"A nurse should be able to assimilate the vast amount of literature available to her, but also be able to screen out irrelevant ones and "fit" useful ones to her patients' individual needs in a systematic manner. This is best exemplified in evidence-based practice. Evidence-based practice by nurses is the process of arriving at clinically relevant research questions, attempting to gather evidence that answers these questions, determining the applicability of evidence in practice by determining its benefits, risks, cost-effectiveness, etc. and putting the answers to practice."

Sample of Sources Used:

American Nurses Association [ANA]. (1994). Education for Participation in Nursing Research. NursingWorld. Retrieved November 30, 2006 from http://www.ana.org/readroom/position/research/rseducat.htm
Banning M. (2005). Conceptions of evidence, evidence-based medicine, evidence-based practice and their use in nursing: independent nurse prescribers' views. J Clin Nurs., 14(4), 411-7.
DePalma, J. (2004a). Advanced Practice Nurses' research competencies: competency I--using evidence in practice. Home Health Care Management & Practice, 16(2), 124-126. Retrieved November 30, 2006 from http://hhc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/16/2/124.pdf
DePalma, JN. (2004b). Advanced Practice Nurses' research competencies: competency II--evaluating practice. Home Health Care Management & Practice, 16(4), 293-295. Retrieved November 30, 2006 from http://hhc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/16/4/293.pdf
Gerrish K & Clayton J. (2004). Promoting evidence-based practice: an organizational approach. J Nurs Manag., 12(2), 114-23. Retrieved November 30, 2006 from the PubMed database.