Clinical Significance of Nurse's Knowledge in a Research Study

Clinical Significance
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Clinical Significance
A nurse knows if any knowledge in a research study is usable for clinical practice by first examining the key features of the study paper to see if the evidence provided is specific to and supports change in the area of clinical practice. Evaluating the evidence of the study to see if it answers the focus question involves identifying the paper’s hypothesis, which may or may not be explicitly stated since this is not a standard feature of most write-ups (Houser, 2018). The next step is identifying the source of the evidence by establishing the author’s credentials and determining if the study is peer-reviewed. If the source meets these credibility standards, the nurse should investigate whether the evidence is founded on primary or secondary sources and how current they are: primary sources are more valid than secondary sources, while the most up-to-date evidence is usually th...