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Evidence-based practice for nursing and healthcare quality improvement
\"A straightforward yet comprehensive guide to planning, implementation, and evaluation of EBP and QI projects to improve quality of care and health outcomes. This brand-new, full-color, richly illustrated textbook begins with foundational content and then works through the processes of developing and exploring clinical questions, implementing results, and disseminating information.\" -- Provided by publisher.
Routledge International Handbook of Nurse Education
While vast numbers of nurses across the globe contribute in all areas of healthcare delivery from primary care to acute and long-term care in community settings, there are significant differences in how they are educated, as well as the precise nature of their practice. This comprehensive handbook provides a research-informed and international perspective on the critical issues in contemporary nurse education.
As an applied discipline, nursing is implemented differently depending on the social, political and cultural climate in any given context. These factors impact on education, as much as on practice, and are reflected in debates around the value of accredited programmes, and on-the-job training, apprenticeship, undergraduate and postgraduate pathways into nursing. Engaging with these debates amongst others, the authors collected here discuss how, through careful design and delivery of nursing curricula, nurses can be prepared to understand complex care processes, complex healthcare technologies, complex patient needs and responses to therapeutic interventions, and complex organizations. The book discusses historical perspectives on how nurses should be educated; contemporary issues facing educators; teaching and learning strategies; the politics of nurse education; education for advanced nursing practice; global approaches; and educating for the future.
Bringing together leading authorities from across the world to reflect on past, present and future approaches to nurse education and nursing pedagogy, this handbook provides a cutting-edge overview for all educators, researchers and policy-makers concerned with nurse education.
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Handbook of arts-based research
\"The handbook is heavy on methods chapters in different genres. There are chapters on actual methods that include methodological instruction and examples. There is also ample attention given to practical issues including evaluation, writing, ethics and publishing. With respect to writing style, contributors have made their chapters reader-friendly by limiting their use of jargon, providing methodological instruction when appropriate, and offering robust research examples from their own work and/or others\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Engaging Nursing Students in Clinical Research Through a Unique Academic-Clinical Partnership
Background
A unique partnership between two academic medical centers, one with a college of nursing and the other with a clinical research center (CRC), provided professional development hours focusing on clinical research and the clinical research nurse's role to generalist entry master's nursing students.
Method
Students with clinical research interests were invited to apply for the 32-hour professional development program scheduled during 4 sequential days. Didactic, observational, and role-playing experiences offered students a picture of the clinical research nurse role, research regulatory processes, and career opportunities postgraduation.
Results
Evaluation of the four cohorts who completed the program demonstrated that most participants highly agreed that the program was educational and valuable.
Conclusion
Partnering with academic medical centers who have CRCs provides master's-level students with innovative professional development hours that foster their understanding of practice areas (e.g., clinical research, specialty role of the clinical research nurse) that are not part of their coursework. [J Nurs Educ. 2025;64(7):e71–e75.]
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Essentials of community-based research
\"Community-based research (CBR) is the most commonly used method for serving community needs and effecting change through authentic, ethical, and meaningful social research. In this brief introduction to CBR, the real-world approach of noted experts Vera Caine and Judy Mill helps novice researchers understand the promise and perils of engaging in this research tradition. This book -outlines the basic steps and issues in the CBR process-from collaboratively designing and conducting the research with community members to building community capacity; -covers how to negotiate complicated questions of researcher control and ethics; -includes a chapter written by community partners, among the examples from numerous projects from around the world\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Differentiating between descriptive and interpretive phenomenological research approaches
To provide insight into how descriptive and interpretive phenomenological research approaches can guide nurse researchers during the generation and application of knowledge.
Phenomenology is a discipline that investigates people's experiences to reveal what lies 'hidden' in them. It has become a major philosophy and research method in the humanities, human sciences and arts. Phenomenology has transitioned from descriptive phenomenology, which emphasises the 'pure' description of people's experiences, to the 'interpretation' of such experiences, as in hermeneutic phenomenology. However, nurse researchers are still challenged by the epistemological and methodological tenets of these two methods.
The data came from relevant online databases and research books.
A review of selected peer-reviewed research and discussion papers published between January 1990 and December 2013 was conducted using CINAHL, Science Direct, PubMed and Google Scholar databases. In addition, selected textbooks that addressed phenomenology as a philosophy and as a research methodology were used.
Evidence from the literature indicates that most studies following the 'descriptive approach' to research are used to illuminate poorly understood aspects of experiences. In contrast, the 'interpretive/hermeneutic approach' is used to examine contextual features of an experience in relation to other influences such as culture, gender, employment or wellbeing of people or groups experiencing the phenomenon. This allows investigators to arrive at a deeper understanding of the experience, so that caregivers can derive requisite knowledge needed to address such clients' needs.
Novice nurse researchers should endeavour to understand phenomenology both as a philosophy and research method. This is vitally important because in-depth understanding of phenomenology ensures that the most appropriate method is chosen to implement a study and to generate knowledge for nursing practice.
This paper adds to the current debate on why it is important for nurse researchers to clearly understand phenomenology as a philosophy and research method before embarking on a study. The paper guides novice researchers on key methodological decisions they need to make when using descriptive or interpretive phenomenological research approaches.
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The CIPP evaluation model : how to evaluate for improvement and accountability
\"The authoritative presentation of a leading evaluation approach, this book describes the CIPP (Context, Input, Process, and Product) Model's origin, concepts, and procedures. Unlike many models, CIPP provides for feedback throughout a program. Richly illustrated with evaluation cases, the book covers methods for engaging stakeholders; designing, budgeting, and contracting evaluations; collecting, analyzing, and reporting information; and conducting metaevaluations. User-friendly features include 26reproducible checklists and forms and references to relevant computer programs. Purchasers get access to a companion website where they can download and print the reproducible tools as well as supplementary materials, including the CIPP Evaluation Model Checklist. Pedagogical Features: *Introduction boxes providing an overview of each chapter. *Within-chapter recaps of key concepts. *End-of-chapter review questions and exercises. *End-of-book glossary. *Appendix listing hundreds of CIPP evaluations across disciplines\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Rigour in qualitative case-study research
To provide examples of a qualitative multiple case study to illustrate the specific strategies that can be used to ensure the credibility, dependability, confirmability and transferability of a study.
There is increasing recognition of the valuable contribution qualitative research can make to nursing knowledge. However, it is important that the research is conducted in a rigorous manner and that this is demonstrated in the final research report.
A multiple case study that explored the role of the clinical skills laboratory in preparing students for the real world of practice. Multiple sources of evidence were collected: semi-structured interviews (n=58), non-participant observations at five sites and documentary sources.
Strategies to ensure the rigour of this research were prolonged engagement and persistent observation, triangulation, peer debriefing, member checking, audit trail, reflexivity, and thick descriptions. Practical examples of how these strategies can be implemented are provided to guide researchers interested in conducting rigorous case study research.
While the flexible nature of qualitative research should be embraced, strategies to ensure rigour must be in place.
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Implementation Science Training and Resources for Nurses and Nurse Scientists
Purpose The purpose of this article is to describe the differences between quality improvement and implementation science, the urgency for nurses and nurse scientists to engage in implementation science, and international educational opportunities and resources for implementation science. Organizing Construct There is a push for providing safe, effective, patient‐centered, timely, efficient, and equitable health care. Implementation science plays a key role in adoption and integration of evidence‐based practices to improve quality of care. Methods We reviewed implementation science programs, organizations, and literature to analyze the roles of nurses and nurse scientists in translating evidence into routine practice. Findings Implementation‐trained nurses and nurse scientists are needed as part of multidisciplinary teams to advance implementation science because of their unique understanding of contextual barriers within nursing practice. Likewise, nurses are uniquely qualified for recognizing what implementation strategies are needed to improve nursing care across practice settings. Conclusions Many international clinical and training resources exist and are supplied to aid interested readers in learning more about implementation science. Clinical Relevance Half of research evidence never reaches the clinical setting, and the other half takes 20 years to translate into clinical practice. Implementation science‐trained nurses are in a position to be excellent improvers for meaningful change in practice.
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AI or nay? Evaluating the potential use of ChatGPT (Open AI) and Perplexity AI in undergraduate nursing research: An exploratory case study
This study aimed to evaluate the performance of publicly available large language models (LLMs), ChatGPT-4o, ChatGPT-4o Mini and Perplexity AI, in responding to research-related questions at the undergraduate nursing level. The evaluation was conducted across different platforms and prompt structures. The research questions were categorized according to Bloom's taxonomy, to compare the quality of AI-generated responses across cognitive levels. Additionally, the study explored the perspectives of research members on using AI tools in teaching foundational research concepts to undergraduate nursing students.
Large Language Models (LLMs) could help nursing students learn foundational research concepts but their performance in answering research-related questions has not been explored.
An exploratory case study was conducted to evaluate the performance of ChatGPT-4o, ChatGPT-4o Mini and Perplexity AI in answering 41 research-related questions.
Three different prompts (Prompt-1: Unstructured with no context; Prompt-2: Structured from professor's perspective; Prompt-3: Structured from student's perspective) were tested. A 5-point Likert-type valid author-developed scale was used to assess all AI-generated responses across six domains: Accuracy, Relevance, Clarity & Structure, Examples Provided, Critical Thinking and Referencing.
All three AI models generated higher-quality responses when structured prompts were used compared with unstructured prompts and responded well across the different Bloom's taxonomy levels. ChatGPT-4o and ChatGPT-4o Mini performed better at answering research-related questions than Perplexity AI.
AI models hold promise as supplementary tools for enhancing undergraduate nursing students' understanding of foundational research concepts. Further studies are warranted to evaluate their impact on specific research-related learning outcomes within nursing education.
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