Essentials of Nursing Research: Methodology, Data Collection, and Analysis

Running head: HEALTHCARE
Topic: HEALTHCARE
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Discussion 1:
Essential of nursing research:
With the global burden of chronic disease, the need of high quality of the health care
services is intensifying gradually. Throughout the 21st century, the role of nurse significantly
since previously nurses are the health professionals who just obey strict instructions of
physicians in order to provide patient centered care whereas in the recent era, nurses working
in the diverse setting. Therefore, in order to provide high-quality care for meeting the
criteria of patients, nursing research has tremendous influence in current as well as
professional nursing practice. Thus, nursing research remains one of the most crucial
components of nursing practice. As discussed by (Christmals et al., 2018) essentials of
nursing research include literature review, methodology ( data collection and data analysis),
result , discussion, finding out expected outcome and highlighting future scope of the study.
In order to conduct research on issue researchers are required to extracting information’s
from the documented literatures in order to gain the understanding if the current research and
highlighted fact about the research. Methodology especially study design is one of the
essentials of nursing research since it determines the accuracy of result, validity of the
research and significance of the research. Methodology also includes selection of the sample
accurate for the research where each participants of the sample represents same
characteristics (Gagnon, Jacob & McCabe, 2015). The data collection is used for gather
unbiased data in order to gain understanding of public health issues and design interventions
for efficient implementation of evidence based practice. The data collection involves
secondary methods of data collection using data bases and primary methods of data
collection through first person interactions. The data analysis involves the detailed analysis
of the collected data in order to extract results (Lewis, 2015). The results of the research are
the sections where researchers report findings of the study based on the collected data without

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any interpretation and bias. The discussion section of the study interprets the result reported
with the alignment of the literature. In order to conduct in-depth unbiased research a nurse
should have critical thinking and in-depth knowledge of evidence based practice
(Zamanzadeh et al., 2018).
Discussion 2:
Obesity is highlighted as one of the chronic health issues which affected the global
burden of disease. In order to provide in the community, the selection criteria for the
participants would be age in between 18 to 65 years of community with high waist
circumference, overweight, obesity associated disease, nutritional habits such as unhealthy
eating habits, sedentary life style. In the current context, first process would conducting
collecting data regarding over weight and associated from local and community level health
care then it would be required to conduct a community based survey for gaining
understanding of the number of obese individuals in population. The health screening of the
community individuals is process of selecting obese individuals where there is presence of
the disease or related symptoms, obesity in this case. As a nurse there will be a professional
connection to my patients included in the target audience as people with 18 – 65 years of age
showing obesity related symptoms would be taken into consideration. Moreover, as I nurse I
should be aware of my responsibilities as a competent healthcare professional and should try
to establish a therapeutic relationship with my patients. Moreover, I should also follow the
ethical principles of nursing including the the various theories like that of Parse aimed at
improving the patient-nurse relationship. I should also follow a holistic care approach where
my main aim should be directed at improving the health of the patients and provide them with
effective care and support, giving them primary importance above all medical procedures.
One of my most important duties as a nurse would be developing the important criteria of
emotional intelligence. I would incorporate the concept of emotional intelligence during