Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Skills (Prepare for Practice)

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Why is this relevant to your area of practice/field? According to the Royal College of Nursing (2015), assessing and managing pain are essential components of nursing practice. Pain is often categorised as acute or chronic, but it is a complex physical, psychological and social phenomenon that is uniquely subjective. A key fundamental of nursing care, patients continue to report unrelieved pain during procedures, after surgery, during episodes of acute illness, in the community and in care homes. The International Association for the Study of Pain (2012), state that poorly managed acute pain may result in the development of chronic pain which is known to have a strong association with anxiety, depression, quality of life and the ability to sleep, communicate and work. Despite advances in theories related to pain control, pain is still a major problem in critically ill patients admitted to intensive care units (Gordon et al., 2005). Search restrictions: Full Text Online, Nursing and English language were used, and the date range was from 2013 to 2019 but as suitable articles were hard to find within this date range it had to be changed to 2012 to 2019. Were all the participants who entered the trial accounted for at its conclusion? Some participants who entered the research trial may not be included in the data analysis at the end of the trial. There may be various reasons for this, but the data analysis should reflect all the participants (even those who may have died as an indirect result of their hypertension). Which framework you choose will depend on the nature of your question. Generally,PEO is used for qualitative questions and PICO for quantitative ones. Look at the descriptions below for more information on each. Each week Nursing Times publishes a guided learning article with reflection points to help you with your CPD. After reading the article you should be able to:

Critiquing frameworks enable readers to make a judgement regarding the soundness of the research. While it is possible to critique a piece of research without them, frameworks serve as useful aides-memoires for those who are not used to critiquing research. Newson, A. and Lipworth, W. (2015). Why should ethics approval be required prior to publication of health promotion research? Health Promotion Journal of Australia. [Online]. 26, pp. 170-175. [Accessed 26 February 2019]. Available at:< https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1071/HE15034> As practitioners gain a deeper understanding of critiquing a single piece of research, they should consider critiquing several research studies on a particular topic, searching for common themes. They could then write a critical review of the literature on that chosen topic. Learning objectives Tacia et al (2015) Identifying barriers to evidence-based practice adoption: A focus group study. United States: Allegiance health system.

Conclusion

Royal College of Nursing (RCN) (2015) Pain knowledge and skills framework [online]. [Accessed 20/02/2019]. Available at: https://www.rcn.org.uk/professional-development/publications/pub-004984

These articles were the most recent and linked to the specific choice of topic better than other articles that were found. The terminology used in some professional journals would require inexperienced readers to explore meanings further. For example, the term ‘constant comparative analysis’ would be familiar to qualitative researchers - particularly those who use the grounded theory approach (methodology) even though there may not be space within the journal to explain why this is unique to one particular research approach. Once data analysis has been completed, then qualitative researchers discuss their findings, although generalisability is not normally possible with qualitative research. You should complete the final version of this table at the end of the search once you are completely happy with it and are confident that you have an appropriate number of relevant results. Critiquing frameworks enable readers to make a judgement regarding the soundness of the research. While it is possible to critique a piece of research without them, frameworks serve as useful aides-memoires for those who are not used to critiquing research. Why use Holland and Rees critiquing?

Does qualitative research have criteria?

Experiences, attitudes, feelings, improvement in condition, mobility, responsiveness to treatment, care, quality of life or daily living.