How can care staff get involved in research?
Lynn MacDiarmid Advanced nurse practitioner, community health services, and principal investigator, RAPID-1 DFU Trial, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Claire Armitage Deputy head of nursing for community services, Adult mental health, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
By continually refreshing their knowledge through research, nurses and carers can enhance patient outcomes
Research is a systematic and rigorous way of collecting and analysing data, and presenting the process and its outcomes to others. This is in contrast to nursing’s tradition of using intuition and reflective practice. Traditional knowledge, although an important source of information, must be kept up to date. What was relevant a decade ago may not be now (Parahoo 2014).
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doi: 10.7748/nop.34.1.13.s5
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