Research Awareness in Nursing and Midwifery: a Workbook
Research awareness in nursing and midwifery: a workbook
Commissioned by: WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference, Education and Research in Primary Health Care Nursing Compiled by: Kate Wilson Tony Butterworth Critical readers: Jackie Oldham Heather Waterman
EUR/00/5019309/17 00350 – 12 April 2000
EUR/00/5019309/17
E70447
EUROPEAN HEALTH21 TARGET 18 DEVELOPING HUMAN RESOURCES FOR HEALTH
By the year 2010, all Member States should have ensured that health professionals and professionals in other sectors have acquired appropriate knowledge, attitudes and skills to protect and promote health
(Adopted by the WHO Regional Committee for Europe at its forty-eighth session, Copenhagen, September 1998)
EUROPEAN HEALTH21 TARGET 19 RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE FOR HEALTH
By the year 2005, all Member States should have health research, information and communication systems that better support the acquisition, effective utilization, and dissemination of knowledge to support health for all
(Adopted by the WHO Regional Committee for Europe at its forty-eighth session, Copenhagen, September 1998)
This workbook on research awareness has been produced for nurses and midwives who have little or no knowledge of research methods. It has been written for an international readership. It is not intended to provide sufficient knowledge to make readers proficient in conducting research, although advice on how to achieve this is included. The workbook comprises sections on carrying out a literature search, reading and evaluating research documents, further research-related activities, a glossary of research terms, and a discussion of the exercises. After reading the workbook, undertaking the exercises and reading the discussion of the exercises, readers should be able to:
• • • •
conduct a literature search; identify sources of information available in their countries/local areas; make attempts at critical evaluation of research-based books, articles, reports and other
Commissioned by: WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference, Education and Research in Primary Health Care Nursing Compiled by: Kate Wilson Tony Butterworth Critical readers: Jackie Oldham Heather Waterman
EUR/00/5019309/17 00350 – 12 April 2000
EUR/00/5019309/17
E70447
EUROPEAN HEALTH21 TARGET 18 DEVELOPING HUMAN RESOURCES FOR HEALTH
By the year 2010, all Member States should have ensured that health professionals and professionals in other sectors have acquired appropriate knowledge, attitudes and skills to protect and promote health
(Adopted by the WHO Regional Committee for Europe at its forty-eighth session, Copenhagen, September 1998)
EUROPEAN HEALTH21 TARGET 19 RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE FOR HEALTH
By the year 2005, all Member States should have health research, information and communication systems that better support the acquisition, effective utilization, and dissemination of knowledge to support health for all
(Adopted by the WHO Regional Committee for Europe at its forty-eighth session, Copenhagen, September 1998)
This workbook on research awareness has been produced for nurses and midwives who have little or no knowledge of research methods. It has been written for an international readership. It is not intended to provide sufficient knowledge to make readers proficient in conducting research, although advice on how to achieve this is included. The workbook comprises sections on carrying out a literature search, reading and evaluating research documents, further research-related activities, a glossary of research terms, and a discussion of the exercises. After reading the workbook, undertaking the exercises and reading the discussion of the exercises, readers should be able to:
• • • •
conduct a literature search; identify sources of information available in their countries/local areas; make attempts at critical evaluation of research-based books, articles, reports and other
References: ARTICLE 1 Journal of advanced nursing, 17: 303–309 (1992) ARTICLE 2 Journal of advanced nursing, 20: 92–100 (1994) ARTICLE 3 Heart & lung – the journal of critical care, 23: 99–105 (1994)