NURS 8200 Week 1 Discussion: Introduction to Research Methods
NURS 8200 Week 1 Discussion: Introduction to Research Methods
NURS 8200 Week 1 Discussion: Introduction to Research Methods
What is evidence-based practice? How does it relate to research?
What is the significance of evidence-based practice and research in nursing and health care in general?
These are questions you may have asked yourself as you prepared for this course.
Evidence-based practice is a term used to describe the integration of individual clinician
experience and knowledge with external information from reputable studies and data sets.
Research is an integral component of evidence-based practice; it can support or offer other
options for the opinions of clinicians (including doctors, nurses, specialists, and other health care
professionals) regarding patient care, and it allows clinicians to make informed decisions.
In order to utilize evidence for practice, health care professionals need to be familiar with key
research concepts and statistical principles necessary to evaluate data. The first week of this
course introduces you to the fundamental concepts of research as they relate to nursing and
evidence-based practice. You explore the two major methods of research, quantitative and
qualitative, and consider the characteristics of each method. You also consider how each method
can be applied to evidence-based nursing practice. NURS 8200 Week 1 Discussion: Quantitative
and Qualitative Research in Clinical Settings
Learning Resources
Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course
Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.
Required Media
Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2011). Research methods for evidence-based
practice: Introduction to research and analysis. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 10 minutes.
In this week’s video, the presenters discuss the use of research in health care and how health care
professionals can select appropriate research topics. The video also discusses how to identify
organizational sources of data for health care research.
Accessible player
Tutorials
Walden University. (n.d.). Overview of quantitative research methods. Retrieved August 1, 2011,
from http://streaming.waldenu.edu/hdp/researchtutorials/qualitative/index.html
This tutorial provides an overview of qualitative research design and methods, including the key
questions to consider when using a qualitative methodology.
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Required Readings
Gray, J.R., Grove, S.K., & Sutherland, S. (2017). Burns and Grove’s the practice of nursing
research: Appraisal, synthesis, and generation of evidence (8th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Saunders
Elsevier.
o Chapter 2, “Evolution of Research in Building Evidence-Based Nursing
Practice"This excerpt discusses methodologies for developing research evidence
in nursing and compares quantitative and qualitative research methods. This
section of Chapter 2 also introduces levels of evidence and how the various levels
are used in evidence-based practice.
o Chapter 3, “Introduction to Quantitative Research”Chapter 3 provides an
overview of quantitative research methods, including sampling and research
settings. The chapter also outlines the steps of quantitative research from the
formulation of a research project to communicating research findings.
Chapter 4, “Introduction to Qualitative Research”Chapter 4 introduces qualitative
research methods and examines the use of qualitative research in nursing.
Select and read one article that uses quantitative methodology and one article that uses
qualitative methodology:
Bonner, L. M., Simons, C. E., Parker, L. E., Yano, E. M., & Kirchner, J. E. (2010). ‘To take care
of the patients’: Qualitative analysis of Veterans Health Administration personnel experiences
with a clinical informatics system. Implementation Science, 563–570. doi:10.1186/1748-5908-5-
63
Note: Retrieved from the Walden Library using the Academic Search Complete database.
[Qualitative]
This article presents a qualitative analysis of interview transcripts with Veteran Health
Administration (VA) personnel and examines themes relating to participants’ interactions with
and assessment of the VA electronic health record (EHR).
Fletcher, A., Cooper, J. R., Helms, P., Northington, L., & Winters, K. (2009). Stemming the tide
of childhood obesity in an underserved urban African American population: A pilot study. ABNF
Journal, 20(2), 44–48.
Note: Retrieved from the Walden Library using the Academic Search Complete database.
[Quantitative]
This article presents the quantitative findings of a pilot weight control study performed by the
Kids for Healthy Eating and Exercising (KHEE) club in Jackson, Mississippi. This program may
be considered a model for successful methods of addressing the nationwide problem of
childhood obesity.
Lavoie-Tremblay, M., Paquet, M., Duchesne, M., Santo, A., Gavrancic, A., Courcy, F., &
Gagnon, S. (2010). Retaining nurses and other hospital workers: An intergenerational
perspective of the work climate. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 42(4), 414–422.
doi:10.1111/j.1547-5069.2010.01370.x
Note: Retrieved from the Walden Library using the CINAHL Plus with Full Text database.
[Quantitative]
This article outlines a quantitative study on work climate perceptions and intentions to quit
among health care workers belonging to three distinct generations: baby boomers, Generation X,
and Generation Y. The article offers suggestions for retention strategies based on the findings of
this study: identifying areas of work climate improvement that are relevant to workers across the
three generations in the study.
Watts, S., Gee, J., O’Day, M., Schaub, K., Lawrence, R., Aron, D., & Kirsh, S. (2009). Program
evaluation. Nurse practitioner-led multidisciplinary teams to improve chronic illness care: The
unique strengths of nurse practitioners applied to shared medical appointments/group
visits. Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, 21(3), 167–172.
Note: Retrieved from the Walden Library using the CINAHL Plus with Full Text database.
[Qualitative]
This article offers a qualitative analysis of case studies of shared medical appointments (SMAs)
or group visits for three different chronic diseases. Using the six criteria in a novel chronic care
model (CCM), the article illustrates how nurse practitioners (NPs) play a variety of roles in the
development, implementation, and sustainability of SMAs as a method of improving the quality
of life and care for patients with chronic diseases.NURS 8200 Week 1 Discussion: Quantitative
and Qualitative Research in Clinical Settings