Abstract
This paper aimed at highlighting the importance of Clinical Nursing Research (CNR) in the professional development of Nursing. CNR often involve patient-oriented research, epidemiologic and behavioural studies, outcomes and health services research. These are all essential in today’s political and societal health care environment with growing shifts and disconnects in patients’ care, and the need for availability of human, material and financial resources required in meeting the health care needs. These and many more require the best available evidence, which could be acquired through CNR. However to achieve the benefits of CNR for professional development, Challenges including low quality research by new and inexperienced researchers; non-availability of research findings to nurses in the practice sectors; inability to identify and work on priority areas needed to improve practice; poor collaboration among researchers and inability to integrate research into practice should be addressed. The key to building and sustaining successful programmes in CNR and evidence-based practice could involve the ground work of establishing forums and structures such as research units in health institutions where discussions and activities about the processes for research and evidence-based practice could be promoted.
Highlights
Professional development represents the development of Nursing Profession
This paper aims at highlighting the scope and domain, the designs and steps in conducting clinical nursing research, the benefits of clinical nursing research in professional development as well as measures for advancing professional development through clinical nursing research
Using the principle that the level of knowledge available on a research topic determines the type of design that could be used to study the topic, for instance the four most common types of questions in clinical nursing research are therapy, diagnosis, etiology and prognosis, a randomized controlled trial would not be feasible for a prognosis study while the best design for prognosis should be a cohort study
Summary
Professional development represents the development of Nursing Profession. Nursing profession is all embracing, being very wide in scope. The phases are 1) Establish links between behaviours and health; 2) Develop measures of the behavior; 3) Identify influences on the behavior; 4) Evaluate interventions to change the behavior and 5) Translate research into practice These are all useful in professional development of nursing. When defined in terms of the researcher, the setting for the investigation or the purpose of the study, CNR could be presented as a research carried out by nurses in the clinical setting and designed to provide information that could help improve patient care. In the clinical practice dimension, four activities are involved as follows: CP 1: provision of direct care to research participants (i.e. Interact with research participants to provide nursing care or administration of research interventions or collection of specimen) CP 2: Providing teaching to research participants and family regarding study participation, participants current clinical condition, and/or disease process. SM 23: Participating in the identification and reporting of research trends
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