...............Steps of Nursing Research Process..........

RESEARCH PROCESS

Research process is the examination and analysis of systematically gathered facts about a particular problem. The aim of research process is the discovery or validation of knowledge. It is the systematic process of problem solving. Research process has following steps:

1. Conceptualization of Research problem
2. Development of Conceptual framework
   • Identifying assumptions
   • Defining variables
   • Stating hypothesis
3. Research Design
   • Selecting Research Approach
   • Planning for data collection
   • Selection of Sample
   • Pilot Study
   • Planning of Data Processing
   • Planning for Data analysis
   • Planning for Interpretation
4. Data Collection
5. Data Analysis
6. Interpretation of Results
7. Writing the Report
8. Critique and Publication
9. Application Results

.....Nursing Research.....

As the context of health care is changing due to the pharmaceutical services and technological advances, nurses and other health care professionals need to be prepared to respond in knowledgeable and practical ways. Research in nursing evolved predominantly when nursing education became a part of higher education and was seeking its own body of knowledge, different from that of medicine. Nursing’s first researchers were being prepared in fields other than nursing and have brought to nursing the various paradigms from those fields.