Board Review
, Research defined
• A systematic search for
understanding, an attempt to gain
solutions, discover and develop an
organized body of knowledge
, Nursing Research
• Concerned with the systematic
study and assessment of nursing
problems or phenomena, finding
ways to improve nursing practice
and patient care through creative
studies, initiating change and taking
action to make new knowledge
useful to nursing
, Foundation of nursing
knowledge
• Customs and traditions
• Authority
• Staff development and experience