Module1reading - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Chapter 1 This chapter introduces you to the world of nursing research. • Nursing research is defined as a scientific process that validates and refines existing knowledge and generates new knowledge that directly and indirectly influences the delivery of EBP. • This chapter presents a framework that links nursing research to the world of nursing and organizes the content presented in this textbook (see Figure 1-1). The concepts in this framework range from concrete to abstract and inc...