Healthcare Research: A Handbook for Students and by Paula Roberts, Helena Priest

By Paula Roberts, Helena Priest

Research is an fundamental part of any undergraduate healthcare direction, and is additionally important for carrying on with expert improvement (CPD). This ebook is a useful advisor for college kids and practitioners who have to collect quite a lot of suitable abilities, and it'll equip them not just to evaluate the standard of released reviews and practice findings to medical perform, but in addition to adopt study themselves.

 

An skilled staff of individuals supply distinct causes of the most strategies and techniques utilized in severe appraisal of released learn, and advisor the reader in integrating those caliber symptoms into their very own reports to make sure rigour in making plans, layout, and execution. Drawing on either quantitative and qualitative methods, the authors write with an emphasis at the improvement of sound examine talents via case-based illustrative examples and situations, with important summaries and sensible workouts all through. additionally they provide recommendation on writing abstracts, providing papers at meetings, and liaising with publishers. eventually, this article will permit readers to have complete self assurance in figuring out, project, and disseminating empirical research.

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The term praxis is also sometimes used to express this concept (Freire, 1964; Slevin, 2003a). It is occasionally identified as practical reasoning or (in a healthcare context) clinical wisdom (Benner, 2003; Benner, Hooper-Kyriakidis and Stannard, 1999). It comes from the synthesis of knowledge with the here-and-now doing of practice. This can be seen as going beyond a concern with cognitive ‘knowing’ for its own sake to the moral position of what is done with what is known. Tied in with this is a responsibility to make use of research in practice that is, therefore, not only informed but morally accepted as necessary in respect of our concern or care for others.

Walsh, M. and Ford, P. (1989) Nursing Rituals, Research and Rational Actions, Heinemann, Oxford. 2 Approaches to Healthcare Research Oliver Slevin Introduction Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference The road not taken – Robert Frost (1971). This chapter sets the scene for the remainder of the book, contextualizing subsequent chapters that explore concepts in greater depth. It provides the historical background to healthcare research and introduces the reader to the continuum of research approaches, ranging from the randomized control trial on the one hand to examples of qualitative research on the other.

We must, however, add a proviso at this point. While quantitative research is a fairly structured approach so universally accepted and predetermined that it is often not even consciously scrutinized by those researchers adopting it, qualitative research is a much broader and diverse family of orientations. Not all qualitative research fits neatly under the label of hermeneutics. Indeed, many in the qualitative camp would reject such approaches. Amongst these are those who may subscribe to different viewpoints, as discussed in Chapter 8, such as using grounded theory approaches in ethnographic research (Glaser, 1992; Glaser and Strauss, 1967; Strauss and Corbin, 1997).

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