COURSE DESCRIPTION
This is an introductory course intended to equip the students with concepts,
principles in research starting from an overview of the major phases of the
research process. The course includes discussion from formulation of a research
problem to the selection of the research design, planning and choosing the
appropriate research tools for data gathering. It requires the student or group of
students to present a research proposal in a colloquium with the application of
knowledge and demonstration of skills and attitude in the conceptual, design and
planning phase of the research process.
COURSE OUTCOMES
The student will be able to:
1. Define Research and Nursing Research
2. Determine the sources of nursing Knowledge and describe the
characteristics of scientific research.
3. Enumerate the purposes of nursing research
4. Enumerate the goals in conducting research in Nursing.
5. Discuss the importance of research in nursing in Nursing.
6. Enumerate the roles of nurses in research
7. Know the history of research
8. Discuss the classification of research
9. Define Evidence-based Practice in Nursing
10. Know the characteristics EBP in Nursing
11. Identify barrier to the adoption of EBP and pinpoint strategies to overcome
them
12. Discuss the Research process
13. Enumerate the phases of the Research process
14. Define Research and Nursing Research
15. Determine the sources of nursing Knowledge and describe the
characteristics of scientific research.
16. Enumerate the purposes of nursing research
17. Enumerate the goals in conducting research in Nursing.
18. Discuss the importance of research in nursing in Nursing.
19. Enumerate the roles of nurses in research
20. Know the history of research
21. Discuss the classification of research
22. Define Evidence-based Practice in Nursing
23. Know the characteristics EBP in Nursing
24. Identify barrier to the adoption of EBP and pinpoint strategies to overcome
them
25. Discuss the Research process
26. Enumerate the phases of the Research process
27. Discuss the characteristics of a research problems
28. Construct a researchable title and problems
29. Discuss the purpose of literature review
30. Appreciate the importance of related studies and literature in research
31. Locate relevant literature needed in writing their research proposal
32. Differentiate theoretical from conceptual framework
33. Discuss the significance of theoretical and conceptual frameworks in nursing
research
34. Formulate the conceptual or theoretical of a selected research study
35. Define, state the purposes, types and formulation of hypothesis and
enumerate the criteria of stating hypothesis
36. Define and state the purposes of Hypothesis
37. Discuss the types of hypothesis
38. Enumerate the criteria of stating the hypothesis
39. Formulate hypothesis of their problem
40. Define research design
41. Discuss the characteristics of a good research design
42. Differentiate internal from external validity
43. Differentiate experimental from Non-experimental design in terms of the
following types and characteristics
44. Select the research design applicable for their study
45. Define sampling and other related Concepts
46. Differentiate the two categories of a sampling plan
47. Discuss the different types of probability and non-probability
48. Discuss the steps in sampling given a specific example
49. Apply the steps in sampling given a specific example
50. Devise data gathering tool
51. Explain the importance of ethics in Nursing research
52. Discuss the ethical consideration in Nursing research
53. State the three basic human rights which a nurse must consider when doing
research
54. Appreciate of ethical consideration in the conduct of research
55. At the end of the course, the students should be able to write and defend
their research proposal
COURSE OUTLINE
A. Introduction to Nursing Research
1. Definition of Terms:
a. Research
b. Nursing Research
2. Sources of Nursing Knowledge
3. Purpose of Nursing Research
4. Goals in Conducting Nursing Research
5. The Importance of Research in Nursing
6. Roles of Nurses in Research
7. History of Research
8. Classification of Research
B. Research Process
1. Overview of the process in quantitative and qualitative studies
2. Conceptual Phase
a. Formulating and delimiting
b. Characteristics of a research problem
c. Sources of a research problem
d. Selection of a research problem
e. Criteria in evaluating research problem
f. Criteria for stating research problem
3. Review of Related Literature
a. Purposes of literature review
b. Categories of reference
c. Locating relevant literature for research review
4. Defining the framework and developing conceptual and theoretical
frameworks
5. Definition of important terms
a. Concept
b. Construct
c. Conceptual Models
d. statistical Models
6. Formulating hypothesis
a. purpose of research hypothesis
b. Types of hypotheses
c. Criteria considered when stating hypotheses
C. Design and Planning Phases
1. Selecting a research design
2. Major categories of research design
a. experimental design
b. non-experimental design
c. qualitative design
3. Characteristics of research design
4. Identifying the population to be studied
a. Differences between total and target populations
b. How to determine sample
5. Designing the sampling plan
6. Measurement and collection method
a. Process of data collection
b. Selecting types of measures
c. Selecting and developing instruments
d. Data collection methods
e. Developing research instruments
f. Data analysis
D. Ethical aspects of nursing research
1. Ethical principles for protecting study participants
a. Beneficence
b. Respect the human dignity
c. Justice
2. Procedures for protecting study participants
a. Informed consent
b. Risk/benefit assessment
c. Confidentiality procedures
d. Debriefing and referrals
e. Treatment of vulnerable groups
f. Institutional reviews, boards and external reviews
FINAL OUTPUT
Title Defense - Submission Final Copy of Manuscript (Research
Proposal)
