Nursing Research Supplement Exam...Need Help!!!

[lovelyladynurse]

Hello everybody,

I'm in my 3rd year of nursing school and I have to do a supplement exam in nursing research. For some reason I finding nursing research difficult.

I'm doing my supp exam on Tuesday and I need about 78 to get a pass in the course. I went in with a 56 :uhoh21:

I need to get 65 overall in the course to pass.

I have been studying my butt off for almost 2 weeks but am still finding certain aspects hard. My test is going to be 60% MC and 40% short answers.

I wished i had a study guide or sample MC i could go by.

Does anybody know any websites that can help as an undergrad nursing research course??

Examples from NCLEX or an RN exam I can go by? anything?

Thank you for any help:up:

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

i can't imagine what they will ask you. i had to take an entire course in nursing research when i was getting my bsn and we had a big thick textbook that went with it. i have no idea where that textbook ended up. probably destroyed by water damage with a bunch of other books. anyway, the way all research is done follows the scientific process. you will recognize the steps of the scientific process because they are the same steps used in the nursing process. when you read a piece of research you will find that it follows this organization:

introduction: introduction of research problem introduction of objectives introduction of how objectives will be achieved (methodology), optional introduction of main findings and conclusions, optional

literature review: review of previous work relating to research problem (to define, explain, justify) review of previous work relating to methodology (to define, explain, justify) review of previous work relating to results (particularly reliability, etc.

• http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/literature_review.html
  (literature reviews)
  
  
• http://www.library.ncat.edu/ref/guides/literaturereview03.htm
  (how to do a literature review)
  
  
• http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/literaturereview.html
  (how to write a literature review)
  
  

method (how the results were achieved): explanation of how data was collected/generated - explanation of how data was analyzed explanation of methodological problems and their solutions or effects

results and discussion: presentation of results interpretation of results discussion of results (e.g. comparison with results in previous research, effects of methods used on the data obtained)

conclusions: has the research problem been "solved"? to what extent have the objectives been achieved? what has been learnt from the results? how can this knowledge be used? what are the shortcomings of the research, or the research methodology? etc.

within each of these steps you can expand on the methods and types of data collection systems that can be used by the researcher. the literature review is really important because it is the basis upon which the researcher bases the ideas for what they are about to do (test). in other words, they look at what has been studied and tested already and what they think needs to be tested and added to the knowledge already known. these literature reviews are extremely important and the rational thinking and conclusions drawn in them needs to be carefully drawn.

when students have asked what a research article should be evaluated for i have usually posted this information:

the steps of research as they should appear in the official research report or an article (which is an abridged version) are as follows:

1. introduction:
   introduction of research problem introduction of objectives introduction of how objectives will be achieved (methodology), optional introduction of main findings and conclusions
   
   
2. literature review:
   review of previous work relating to research problem (to define, explain, justify) review of previous work relating to methodology (to define, explain, justify) review of previous work relating to results (particularly reliability, etc.)
   
   
3. method
   (how the results were achieved):
   explanation of how data was collected/generated, explanation of how data was analyzed explanation of methodological problems and their solutions or effects
   
   
4. results and discussion:
   presentation of results interpretation of results discussion of results (e.g. comparison with results in previous research, effects of methods used on the data obtained
   
   
5. conclusions:
   has the research problem been "solved"? to what extent have the objectives been achieved? what has been learned from the results? how can this knowledge be used? what are the shortcomings of the research, or the research methodology? etc.
   
   

these websites may help:

• http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/scientific_method.html - understanding and using the scientific method
  
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/category:scientific_method
    

  [*]http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~ebrown/infobr3.htm - the stages of preparing a research proposal

  [*]http://www2.hawaii.edu/~matt/proposal.html - guidelines on writing a research proposal