Nursing Research - Science topic

Thanks Basma Mohamed Osman please send the required information as per the post

Kalpana Singh

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Try to look at quality of nursing care topics like quality of vital signs monitoring, drug administration, fluid management

Nursing's Role in Climate Change is trending issue

Hello Theo,

The very best nursing research for undergraduates is a project that you have a personal interest in. What excites you most about nursing? Where can you see yourself in the future? This is what you should focus on.

Best wishes in your future endeavors -

Deb Tedone :-)

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Good luck with your paper!

Hi Stacey and Anika, please have a look at this link I find it can help you, but it is not a protocol model for my country, they said we can use it to help peoples in this time of the pandemic.https://www.evergreenhealth.com/documents/Coronavirus/covid-19-lessons-learned.pdf

Hi John,

I am happy to collaborate in such topic

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Thanks,

Thanks for sharing your ideas

I found this article and it is helpful

I also got the approval for the EBP. Thanks Dr Younas...

Palmer: Le sugiero utilizar la Historia de vida como caso único que podría explicar un fenómeno en un contexto particular,Utilizando el teórico Ferrarotti.A través de una historia de un caso, es posible leer un fenómeno en una sociedad X.

The level of burnout can be measured by using a scale of Burnout. One such published scale's citation -

Malach-Pines, A. (2005). The burnout measure, short version. International Journal of Stress Management, 12(1), 78.

First, you might also need a scale such as DASS to measure the level of Anxiety and Stress of leaders. Then, identify the sample from which you collected the data who have high anxiety and stress. After that, you can use the Burnout Inventory on this sample only.

Dear mam,

I want to study the knowledge , attitude and skill changes among health care workers after sensitization program  on PEP ?

For Knowledge assessment, u can prepare a multiple choice questionnaire and validate it and check its reliability also.

Foe attitude assessment, u can prepare a likert scale.

Skill assessment, can be done by OSCE.

Dear Behrooz Rezaei

I totally agree with all previous comments. In my opinion, the competency factor is very important in improving performance, and it may help, but this is not enough to relieve or tension or stress among nurses, for example midwives, and their skills and talents will increase their confidence and improve their performance, but their number is low compared to the large number of patients, in addition to dealing with a pregnant woman during labor, it requires a long time of follow-up and attention during and after childbirth, there is difficulty in dealing with many patients during childbirth especially in primigravida and young age patients, as well as a lack of resources, and ill-treatment between the patient’s family and nurses or between the nurses and other health team all these factors increase the stress of nurses during their job

Kathleen‘s answer is spot on. Read read and read again. If it’s data collection instruments you need, approach the author. Most folks are very generous about allowing use of their ip and can advise on proper use including statistics.

Thank you, Ms. Crittenden for the very useful answer you provided.

I was a Merchandise Manager for Barnes & Noble. I had two Assistant Managers and a General Manager above me. I was also left alone to manage the store, mostly closings. In attempts at influencing those above me, it depended upon the person. When I was in charge, I used more authoritative and cooperative tactics. My behavior changed when with fellow managers into a more cooperative and goal focused tactic. So, I believe that influential tactics were chosen to moderate behavior. IV - influential tactic selection, DV - level of moderation of behavior. 

Find the attached papers regarding emotional labour of nurses, hope these will help you to design a model.

May be I need see. If i get means...what next

Segaran,

It is a multifactorial issue.. Here are the most commonly expressed concerns (thoughts and feelings) that I have personally experienced over the past 3 1/2 decades of nursing.

1. Will anyone believe me?

2. Will I be supported or punished by my employer?

3. Will I be targeted for retribution by the family?

4. It is not my responsibility, anyway.

5. What if I'm wrong? Can I suffer legal repercussions?

6. Someone else will step up, so I don't have too.

7. What will my spouse say if I lose my employment?

8. How will I take care of my family?

Without a strong culture of safety, it is easy to see the personal risks associated with standing up.

Although I do not offer a reference list, I hope my shared thoughts and experiences help.

Regards,

Chris

I know this is an older question- but here is information about a long term intervention done by phone- 

Here is some work by a former classmate of mine- Although it is older, it may give you some good information 

in the first attachment {medication 10} you will find 10 tools and comparison between them.

The other attachment is helpful as well

Good luck

Prof. Muayyad Ahmad

As far back as 2008 evidence identified the instillation of normal saline before endotracheal suctioning has been considered an adverse practice because of the physiological and psychological effects. More current evidence has reached similar conclusions.

This review article by Halm et al may be initially helpful: Halm et al, Instillingn normal saline with suctioning. Am J Crit Care September 2008 vol. 17 no. 5 469-472

Maybe try contacting the authors through research gate.... https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46580927_The_Supportive_Care_Needs_Survey_for_Partners_and_Caregivers_of_Cancer_Survivors_Development_and_Psychometric_Evaluation

An increasing body of evidence suggests at least a relationship. Generally with positive overtones. Some literature suggests a causal one. If you haven't already, I would urge you to include the work of Timothy Porter-O'Grady in your exploration. In America it is more commonly called "shared governance." 

Hi

Yes, if your data is continuous, the statistical method for weighting is inverse variance and finally your effect measures can be mean difference or standardized MD. 

I have been involved in three studies relating to compassion. Exploring nurses, relatives and patients perceptions of compassion, another project last year on cultivating compassion through a train the trainer programme with the healthcare workforce http://www.cultivatingcompassionatecare.wordpress.com  (exec report included) there were some real gains for staff involved and raised awareness of importance of self and team compassion in order to deliver compassionate care to patients we are now engaged in a project with undergraduate medical, physio and OT students exploring their experiences of noticing compassionate acts in placement and what impact that has on their perspective of compassion- lovely findings emerging re the power of noticing compassionate acts to influence self understandings and own compassionate behaviour in consequence. All these are currently being written up this summer. University of Brighton School of Health Sciences and Brighton and Sussex Medical School

I have not read or written any papers about Hyperemesis and Psych Component because i havent had enough cases to write something compelling.

I did write one about:  Mothers and long dysfunctional labors. Midwifery Today Int Midwife.2006:80:32-3 that is posted on research gate:

Thank you very much indeed Daniel and Béatrice.

The cutpoint example shed me some light of understanding. I greatly appreciate your kind responses.

What an amazing people you are. Kind regards.

thank you all, great and helpful bits of advice!

Thank you!

The most common approach for controlling social desirability in questionnaires is through the use of lie scales. However, lie scales in themselves have validity problems. Today, many researchers believe that what lie scales measure is not the tendencies to fake good on questionnaires, but a general facet of personality.

Therefore, it is not quite certain what we are doing when controlling for lie scale scores.

I can recommend these papers;

Uziel, L. (2010). Rethinking Social Desirability scales: From Impression Management to interpersonally oriented self-control. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 243-262.

Smith, D. B., & Ellingson, J. E. (2002). Substance versus style: A new look at social desirability in motivating contexts. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87, 211-219.

Schmitt, N., Oswald, F. L., Kim, B. H., Gillespie, M. A., Ramsay, L. J., & Yoo, T.-Y. (2003). Impact of elaboration on socially desirable responding and validity of biodata measures. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88, 978-988.

Pauls, C. A., & Stemmler, G. (2003). Substance and bias in social desirability responding. Personality and Individual Differences, 35, 263-275.

Moorman, R. H., & Podsakoff, P. M. (1992). A meta-analytic review and empirical test of the potential confounding effects of social desirability response sets in organizational behaviour research. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 65, 131-149.

Holden, R. R. (2007). Socially desirable responding does moderate personality scale validity both in experimental and non-experimental contexts. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 39, 184-201.

af Wåhlberg, A. E., Dorn, L., & Kline, T. (2010). The effect of social desirability on self reported and recorded road traffic accidents. Transportation Research Part F, 13, 106-114.

af Wåhlberg, A. E. (2010). Social desirability effects in driver behavior inventories. Journal of Safety Research, 41, 99-106.

af Wåhlberg, A. E., & Melin, L. (submitted). On the validity of lie scales.

Very interested in this topic. Not sure if you have identified a nurse researcher as yet. Not sure if I meet the criteria but I am a registered nurse with research experience. E-mail me at deviveerasami@yahoo.com

Dear Prof. Ahmad,

Every country has a nursing practice or regulation Act which defines the scope of practice for nurses. keeping in view of the nursing practice regulations in force in a particular country ,Nursing Intervention Research could be done.

As far as the nursing practice in India is concerned, Non-pharmacological interventions are in the scope of practice of nursing.

For example, here in India there are intervention studies 

1. cabbage leaves for mastitis

2. Banana leaf dressing (BLD) and Boiled potato peel dressing (BPPD) for partial thickness burn wounds

3. Application of Jasmine Flowers to suppress puerperal lactation to treat Breast engorgement 

4. Effectiveness of Music therapy in pain relief

e.t.c

In case of efficacy of Jasmine flowers to suppress puerperal lactation, there is a study which compared its efficacay with that of bromocriptine.

 Regards

Rathish

Dear Pat, 

Check these three studies out: 

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Thanks for your answer.

I'm already aware of this research which is conclusive on the subject.

merry X-mas & happy new year.

hope to be able to help you to in the future.

Hi Eduardo - you are spoilt for choice really in nursing with established and reputable journals that do not charge (unless you opt for the voluntary open access charges). Some of these journals have the advantage of being very broad in their scope. For instance, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, International Journal of Nursing Studies etc. If say your study focused on less clinical disciplines, such as nursing education, then journals such as Nurse Education Today would fit the bill well - and there are many research-specific journals that do the same - such as Nurse researcher. The main thing to consider when considering submitting manuscripts to any established (non-fee paying) journal is that the competition and quality is often higher than elsewhere so, to ensure a relative degree of success, your manuscript would have to be well written and crafted (in English), within the scope of the journal, written according to house-style instructions, good quality and rigorous study methodology - and a degree of creativity and originality in the findings.

Patients education, outcome, & compliance are excellent goals for nursesto do. In order to develop such program and reach this goal, you need to focus on specific topics, for example identify the needs for patients admitted to CCU, or Hemodialysis unit..etc. be focused. Broad general program will lead into no where!.

I know of the communication assessment tool for therapeutic communication (2009) which has domains.

they include: domain 1-professional practice

domain 2-critical thinking and analysis

domain 3-provision and coordination of care

domain 4-collaborative and therapeutic practice

each domains is rated on scale 0-2 with their descriptions, at the end of the assessment the score is totalled and compared with the performance level.

performance level includes: ESTABLISHED COMPETENT, BEGINING COMPETENT AND NOT YET COMPETENT.

I hope this gives a helping clue while you research more on it.

best regards....

Hi Irena,

would be useful to provide both a link and a title

Thanks

Dear Dr,

I have an article about your problem that you can use it.

Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res. 2012 Jan-Feb; 17(1): 12–15.

 

PMCID: PMC3590688

Nurses’ attitude to patient education barriers in educational hospitals of Urmia University of Medical Sciences

Nader Aghakhani,1 Hamid Sharif Nia,2 Hadi Ranjbar,3 Narges Rahbar, BSc,4 and Zahra Beheshti, MS5

HI, 

Theoretical speaking,,yes frequent round will reduce the fall rate. but I would suggest to do a thorough assessment for each admission for the disorientation level, accordingly the higher disoriented individuals should be placed in a bed or room close to nursing station. if in_camera allowed in the setting, this will provide continous monitoring. there is also an alarm instrument which can be attached to the patients gown from one side and to the bed in the other side, the movement of the patient will lead to alarm sound. 

Therefore, there are many interventions better than hourly round.

Regards

Dear Dr. Miller

I am a nursing faculty in Jordan. I am interested to participate in this study

sorry I do not know the answer

Hi,

also, you can find a useful information on nursing development, theory, philosophy in the following recently published book

 J. J. Fitzpatrick & A. L. Whall (Eds.). Conceptual models of nursing: Global perspectives. Upper Saddle, NJ: Pearson. ISBN-10: 0133805751 • ISBN-13: 9780133805758

As an Associate Nurse Executive of Education and Research who is funded (research) as well as someone who has worked in Academia, my first and foremost response is--IT DEPENDS. 

If you have a research strong center, that has strong funding, hiring research nurses who are certified research coordinators is your best use of resources.  Nurses who are certified RCs allows the PI to delegate multiple responsibilities and the RNs are focused on the study (ies) and the multiple duties that are needed to run the study (ies).

If you have a new research program or are only looking at research from an internal prospective (ie Quality Improvement projects), having nurses being integral partners in Evidence Based Care Councils/Committees, allowing RNs time to conduct research or Quality Improvement projects, and reinforcing that research/evidence based practice is a part of their daily job is also an effective as well as efficient use of resources.

All academic institutions should be teaching the practical aspects of Evidence Based Practice. How each institution implements it is unique.

THANK YOU KINDLY 

Maintaining a healthy work environment and staffing adequacy required to reduce the burnout among nurses.  

I wish this paper might help (included references of prof Linda Aiken).

1. The Impact of Patient to Nurse Ratio on Quality of Care and Patient Safety in the Medical and Surgical Wards in Malaysian Private Hospitals: A Cross-sectional Study

The attached file one paper I wish this will help as well. 

Warm regards, 

I hop this paper could help.

Nurse Level of Education, Quality of Care and Patient Safety in the Medical and Surgical Wards in Malaysian Private Hospitals: A Cross-sectional Study

Warm Regards,

Mu'taman Jarrar

Just do it! The best way to learn about research and appreciate it is just to jump in and do it. 

One thing that has been done for a while in my neck of the woods is the Research Challenge. It is a small grant $5000, that is specifically for nursing and allied health to conduct a research study.  It is a team's grant. Potential teams submit first a letter of intent, they are then matched with a research mentor that is committed to help the team, and the teams must attend a series of compulsory and optional workshops on literature search, grant proposal development, ethics etc. before submitting the final proposal. I believe this year there is funds to support 18 teams at our facility. It is quite amazing what past recipients have accomplished with these small grants. they have turned into ongoing research, larger projects, masters thesis, and organization wide QI projects. Here is the website for this current year's competition. Feel free to contact the team at VCHRI for more information. I have found them to be incredibly supportive.

 

 Dear Dr. Ruby ,

I think this article may be useful:

Worldviews Evid Based Nurs. 2008;5(2):75-84. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-6787.2008.00123.x.

Effectiveness of a computer-based educational program on nurses' knowledge, attitude, and skill level related to evidence-based practice.

Hart P1, Eaton L, Buckner M, Morrow BN, Barrett DT, Fraser DD, Hooks D, Sharrer RL.

Regards,

If looking for a good question - the impact of napping breaks needs more research, especially for across shifts. With the 12-hour shift being fairly consistent in US hospitals, both day and night nurses are dealing with sleep deprivation (for example, day shift nurses are often getting up exactly at the time that they should be in their deepest sleep cycle). The information about the benefits of organizations that have 'napping' policies is primarily anecdotal. Need to know if this can really be honored across an organization - what are the supports that need to be in place, such as staffing to cover during this type of break, and what are the measurable impacts of napping - decreased errors, etc. - over an extended (year+) implementation of the practice.

An interesting question here - and good information from Peter. I suppose that it would be very difficult though to get an accurate number for the whole of Africa. The multiple regions will have different standards and criteria for doctoral qualifications - as well as different means of measuring and recording them. There would, I would imagine, be large differences between various countries within Africa (although South Africa as Peter has highlighted would be a good 'litmus test'). Even if you take the US and Canada - according to 'thetruthaboutnursing.org' - nearly 13% of US nurses (404,000) and 2.5% (6,300) of Canadian RNs and have earned masters or doctoral degrees. In the U.S. 28,000 hold doctoral degrees. That's a huge difference between those two countries alone as to percentages of nurses who posses higher degrees.

Read more: http://www.truthaboutnursing.org/faq/rn_facts.html#ixzz3TvmhXBzQ

hello Ms. Eliza Harper

 i am just uploading a few references which might help. probably you may have too. 

Thank you Dr. Griffiths for your vision. Definitely I agree with you regarding "not to consider or claim nursing specific concepts" for conducting research in nursing. I was also talking about concepts in psychosocial fields (as most of the concepts used in nursing research are mainly borrowed from other disciplines), however, even major concepts are still debatable in its definition such as Health, coping, stress. Consequently, the operational definition will not be highly valid! 

yes. there is some literature and research abut student in universities(in general) can be generalized to nurse students (in pretest).

From a front door emergency perspective we see a quite few respiratory emergencies ie bronchiolitis and asthma."Flat" or poorly responsive infants due to septic shock from bacteremia/ sever dehydration is less common but another reason. Then there are trauma related cases due to accidents ,neglect or deliberate harm and near drowning which again are less common but in the top reasons for a "crash" response. I am not so sure what happens on the wards but this is my personal experience working in a mixed adult and paediatric ED.

my speciality is not in your research but if you send an email for me i can connect you in iran- jahrom medical university to midwifery piooners which they are master in this field

RAFAELA system has been used to state the optimal nursing intensity level. The method has been tested in hospital care as well as primary care. You can found lot of articles were the method are described. 

Frilund et al, 2009, Fagerström et al 2004, 2013, 2014  Mostly of the articles are written of Fagerström  and her research team. 

Dear Rahil,

To examine EI, you can use the ‘‘Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire’’, a 16-item questionnaire developed by Wong and Law (2002). Organizational behavior is broad concept, you have to identify specific (measurable) variables to be examined. However, the attached documents and the following links might be helpful:

Good luck in your study.

from its name, adhoc, it can be done when the participants are available. The researcher is ready. and the expected outcome from the research is decided

HI Rosario, as Edwin points out, self-efficacy is task specific, which people often confuse and why the general self-efficacy scale is questionable. I am not sure what specific task you are looking for in nursing, but I have developed an Evidence-Based Practice Self-Efficacy Scale, that measures one's confidence in how to approach and and implement EBP. We have published preliminary validity and reliability of the scale and have further supporting data not yet published. If interested, let me know and I will gladly get you a copy at no cost. We have a request form online at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Hundreds of providers across the country and in several other countries have requested to use the scale. 

Thanks Joan. I will be delighted to use the instrument in my environment. Thanks

Dear Carmen,

It is a common misconception that resilient people experience no negative emotions or thoughts and display optimism in all situations. Resilient people effectively balance negative emotions with positive ones, utmost, they adopt an inner attitude towards the experience e.g. in the form of self-transcendens in devastating situations where no other options are available.  Resilience is considered to comprise:

-The ability to make realistic plans and being capable of taking the steps necessary to follow through with them

-A positive self-concept and confidence in one’s strengths and abilities

-Communication and problem-solving skills

-The ability to manage strong impulses and feelings

As a student it helps if you consider your choise of profession as the "only thing" that makes you really happy.

In our research we discuss moral resilience and apply Viktor Frankl's existential philosophy as a link between moral distress, moral sensitivity, and moral resilience.

I am interested to engage in your posted question. What do you mean by nursing management in your question?

In my understanding management is inherent to nursing since the time of Florence Nightingale in 1854. Due to constancy of change management theories that apply to nursing practice were developed. Application of nursing management theories and principles vary depending on the health care environment.

Dimitri Beeckman & colleagues produced some validated questionnaires for use with nurses looking at attitudes towards PU prevention and a knowledge assessment tool. See:

Beeckman et al (2010) Pressure ulcers: Development and psychometric evaluation of the Attitude towards Pressure ulcer Prevention instrument (APuP) International Journal of Nursing Studies 47 (11): 1432-1441

Beeckman et al (2010) Pressure ulcer prevention: development and psychometric validation of a knowledge assessment instrument International Journal of Nursing Studies 47 (4): 399-410

I think if the values were ranged from 3-15 it is not ordinal

especially when the sample is large (depending on the theory of the central limit). You can apply the Reliability coefficient Alpha to see the internal consistency of the Items and Split-half can be used to measure the stability.

Jose - I'm not sure that I have the answer you're looking for -

I was able to find several articles, which appear to be on your topic:

Cummings, G. G., Hayduk, L., & Estabrooks, C. A. (2006). Is the nursing work index measuring up?: moving beyond estimating reliability to testing validity. Nursing Research, 55(2), 82-93.

This article has visual scales of a single scale instrument, a 4-subscale instrument and a 5-subscale instrument.

Bonneterre, V., Ehlinger, V., Balducci, F., Caroly, S., Jolivet, A., Sobaszek, A., ... & Lang, T. (2011). Validation of an instrument for measuring psychosocial and organisational work constraints detrimental to health among hospital workers: The NWI-EO questionnaire. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 48(5), 557-567.

This article is comparing NWI-EO and NWI-PES - perhaps it would be helpful to you?

Warshawsky, N. E., & Havens, D. S. (2011). Global use of the practice environment scale of the Nursing Work Index. Nursing research, 60(1), 17.

Hope this helps!

Melissa

Euthanasia is illegal in the US but Assisted suicide or Physician aid in dying (PAD), is legal in the states of Washington, Oregon, Montana, and Vermont. While machinery and intubations can prolong life, they also can be legally removed to ensure death with dignity. Even feeding tubes can be removed legally. Often issues occur when the patient does not have a living will or advanced directives and the family members do not agree on what should be done. It is often difficult to see a loved one in the persistent unresponsive state. It is also difficult to make the decision that this loved one should be taken off machinery or tube feedings, thus causing their death. The Terri Schiavo case is an example of the difficulties families face.