Nursing Research

Nursing research helps nurses to discover fruitful best practices and improve patient care. Research is significant to realize where nursing is going and what it is intending to accomplish. Every nurse can advantage from knowing why nursing research is necessary, how research is performed and how research conducted in patient care. Nurses have a responsibility in some way to make a contribution to the development of the profession’s expertise via research.

The standards of using a research based approach to nursing include:
•    Improvement in patient care 
•    Low cost of care delivery
•    Answerability and safety against lawsuit 
•    Adding existing body of nursing expertise
•    Improvement of nursing as a profession