The research process in nursing. by Gerrish, Kate; Lacey, Anne

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"The skill to appreciate, appraise and utilise examine facts is significant to offering top of the range healthcare. study skill development within the career additionally implies that nurses have to examine the abilities to adopt examine for themselves. The examine method in Nursing serves as an creation for amateur nurse researchers to the method of venture empirical examine, severely appraising published  Read more...

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Q3(b) What is the level of knowledge about palliative care among nurses working in nursing homes? Q3(c) What is the experience of link nurses for palliative care working in nursing homes? Before setting out with any of these questions the researcher would need to be clear how ‘nursing home’ was to be defined, and for Q3(b) a validated tool to measure knowledge would need to be available. Q3(a) suggests a comparative survey of samples of nursing homes and hospitals, but would the underlying question be answered by asking patients’ views alone?

Alternatively the question may be derived from a ‘call for proposals’ from a funding body that asks researchers to develop a proposal on a specific topic. 1 provides an example of such a call, in this case from the National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO) Programme. The call is specifically about the research areas to be investigated, indicates the methods to be used, the funding available and timescale required. Full details are available from the SDO website, together with a standard application form and a deadline by which proposals have to be submitted.

Increasing demands on the finite resources within the NHS have resulted in the need to ensure that healthcare interventions are not only clinically effective but also cost-effective. There is little point pursuing a costly intervention if a cheaper one is seen to be equally as effective. The field of health economics is concerned with examining the financial and wider resource implications of providing a specific intervention or service. Economic evaluations can be undertaken to evaluate different treatments or alternative ways of providing services from an economic perspective and providing information that can be used to inform judgements about the clinical and cost-effectiveness of a particular intervention or service (Chambers & Boath 2001).

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