Nursing Research A Requisite of Professional Nursing
Nursing Research 1 Running head: NURSING RESEARCH Nursing Research: A Requisite of Professional Nursing Park S. Balevre, MSN, RN,BC Nursing Research 2 Nursing Research: A Requisite of Professional Nursing While categorizing the requisite components of the profession of nursing, Leddy and Pepper (1998, p. ... This body of knowledge is built on two foundational supports: experience and research. Research is the critical support for the growth of nursing as a profession because it develops and validates the empirical knowledge on which the profession is framed (Leddy & Pepper, p. ... Without this underlying structure, the scientific practice of professional nursing would collapse. And as with any foundation, nursing research must be scientifically constructed with viable components by those of us who seek to build the professional nursing structure. ... 3), the primary role of nursing research is to establish a scientifically sound basis for practice by using the scientific method. ... This enables the researcher or user of the research to control, predict, or understand the phenomena being studied (Polit & Hungler, p. ... Using the scientific method is important to the profession of nursing not only because it establishes a professional research methodology on the same level as other scientific disciplines, but because it yields valuable information about the cause-and-effect relationships specifically related to nursing phenomena. ... 11) explore the purpose of scientific research as it applies to the nursing profession, and outline the following five reasons for conducting research: describe, explore, explain, predict, and control. I am currently serving on a Nursing Research 3 committee at St. Vincent=s Medical Center to help develop a new model of nursing care for the hospital, and have seen each of these five facets of nursing research on some level.