Description

NR439Week 5 Assignment: Research Designs

Purpose

A baccalaureate nurse understands, relates, and values the fundamental elements of research, process, and designs as a foundation for an evidence-based practice (AACN, 2008; QSEN, 2018). This assignment provides a learning activity for students to demonstrate understanding of quantitative and qualitative research, the purpose and importance of designs, and how research is critical for creating a credible evidence-based nursing practice.

Course Outcomes

This assignment enables the student to meet the following Course Outcomes.

• CO 1:  Examine the sources of evidence that contribute to professional nursing practice. (PO 7)
• CO 2:  Apply research principles to the interpretation of the content of published research studies. (PO 4 & 8)
• CO 5:  Recognize the role of research findings in evidence-based practice. (PO 7 & 8)

Due Date

Submit the completed this assignment by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of Week 5.

Points

This assignment is worth 225 points.

Week 5 Assignment: Research Designs Assignment

Directions for Preparing the Scholarly Paper

1. Read each of these instructions.
2. Read the assignment grading rubric criteria. Your paper will be graded using the assignment grading rubric criteria.
3. Review the Recommended Guideline (Links to an external site.). The guideline is a recommended outline only and does not substitute for your assignment grading rubric.
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5. This assignment is completed as an APA paper. APA resources can be found in your Resources Tab and the library. You are required to complete the paper using the productivity tools required by Chamberlain University, which is Microsoft Office Word 2013 (or later version), or Windows and Office 2011 (or later version) for MAC. You must save the file in the “.docx” format. Do NOT save as Word Pad. A later version of the productivity tool includes Office 365, which is available to Chamberlain students for FREE by downloading from the student portal at http://my.chamberlain.edu (Links to an external site.) . Click on the envelope at the top of the page
6. Two or more supporting scholarly references are required. Textbooks and assigned readings are not allowed and should not be used as a scholarly source. Use the Chamberlain Library to locate relevant, scholarly sources.
7. No more than two direct quotes are allowed. You should be using mostly your own words to demonstrate your understanding of the topics/criteria for this assignment. Citations and references must be included.
8. This is a short, scholarly paper. The assignment should be 3-4 pages in length not including the title page and references page.
9. Submit the completed assignment on the Week 5: Assignment page.

 

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Scholarly Sources and Citations

• Use APA format in citations and references.
• No more than two direct quotes are allowed. Paraphrasing encouraged.

Introduction

                The Nursing practice is based on nursing knowledge and the foundation of nursing knowledge is based on nursing research. Nurses rely on research to reinforce their decision making and to help apply critical thinking directly to specific patient care. Research also ensures nurses that their decisions are based on sound science. It is important for nurses to understand research so that the care they are providing is patient centered with a measurable goal. This paper will serve as bases for different types of research methods and how it can be used to create an evidenced based nursing practice.

Quantitative Research

                Quantitative research is the traditional approach to scientific research in which variables are identified and measured numerically. The goal of quantitative research is to measure and analyze casual relationships between variables to draw a conclusion. Quantitative research is important because it associates statistical/numerical evidence to help support evidence-based nursing practice. Quantified numbers and statistics can be applied to nursing practice by analyzing data of the controlled group versus the intervention group of the study.  There can be a direct correlation between the numerical value and how well a patient is taking to a treatment. Therefore, Quantitative research can determine the final course of action of treatment, which helps the nurse provide patient centered care. Quantitative research is associated with four types of research design but one research design type that stands out the most is the descriptive research design method. One important feature of the descriptive design is that it is an explorative and a confirmatory design method. It is an accurate portrayal of the characteristics of individuals, situations, or groups and the frequency with which certain phenomena occur using statistics to describe and summarize the data (Warner et al, 2020)……….Kindly click the purchase icon to buy full solution at $10