I’m very excited to welcome Ryan Bucci as a guest author this month! Ryan Bucci is a Content Strategist with HospitalCareers. HospitalCareers has over 25,000+ hospital jobs, career advice, and career insights for hospital and healthcare job seekers. Since May is a time of transition for many, I’ve asked Ryan to
This month’s posts have all been about the existence and persistence of the research-practice gap in nursing — that is, the gap between the publication or dissemination of research and the use of those findings in practice. In this post, I’ll discuss some of the ways that the research-practice gap
In a previous post, I talked about the research-practice gap, also known as the evidence-practice gap. This phenomenon is not a figment of our past but is still a problem struggled with today (Agbedia, Okoronkwo, Onokayeigho, & Agbo, 2014; Curtis, Fry, Shaban, & Considine, 2016; Middlebrooks, Carter-Templeton, & Mund, 2016). Of course,
Mind the Gap! That’s a sign you’ll see in the London underground (AKA subway). The point is to watch where you are walking and not misstep into the gap between the train and platform. If you mind the gap, you’ll have a good outcome and get on the train safely.
Why? Why? Why? Why do nursing students need to learn about the research process? Why do nurses conduct research? Why do nurses need to use research? Why is an “inquiring mind” so important? You might have asked yourself some of these questions as you struggle through your nursing research classes or
The posts this month focused on concept analysis: what it is, how to search for published articles on concept analysis, and commonly used concept analysis methods and frameworks used in nursing theory and nursing research. Last week I presented an overview of Walker and Avant’s concept analysis method. Today’s post introduces
The first two posts of this series on concept analysis laid out the purpose of concept analysis and how to search for concept analysis articles and research. This post will begin an overview some of the commonly used concept analysis methods and frameworks used in nursing theory and nursing research.
Last week I described the definition and purpose of a concept analysis. In this post, I’ll talk about the difference between concept analysis and concept development, give you some tips on how to do a concept analysis search, and identify several theoretical frameworks to guide your concept analysis journey. What
Graduate school means a lot of studying about the phenomena or concepts underlying nursing practice. One of these concepts may be interesting to you to the point that you may want to study it for your thesis or dissertation or for your capstone project. One of the ways that faculty
In evidence-based practice, an overview of one or more evidence sources is said to be synthesized or summarized. Synthesis evidence is a big help for busy clinicians because the hard work of critical appraisal of each of the included studies is done already! However, the clinician STILL has to critically appraise
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