Introduction to Nursing Research
Research in nursing practice is geared towards solving clinical practice problems in a scientific way. Most of these problems arise because there are practices that are not effective or efficient in bringing about better patient outcomes but are used nonetheless. This is the concept of common practice. To address these practice problems, nurses carry out research to find out alternative actions or interventions that are better at managing patients. Because these better alternatives are the result of a scientific process (clinical inquiry research), they become part of what is known as evidence-based practice or EBP (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2019). EBP is referred to as best practice and is the converse of common practice. This paper is about nursing research and briefly describes an example problem that can be addressed through research.Introduction to Nursing Research.
The Problem
The problem in this case is the use of the supine position in patients who are bed-ridden. It is a fairly common practice to keep these patients in supine position for most of the time. This is done in the belief that the position eases pressure on the body prominences and prevents necrosis. This seems unlikely however because cases of pressure ulcers in hospitalized and bed-ridden patients have still been on the rise (Angmorterh et al., 2019). This means that the issue needs to be investigated to find better evidence-based practices that can prevent pressure ulcers. This may include finding better positions to keep the patients in. The rationale for this is that bed-ridden patients still suffer pressure sores, especially the elderly. If scholarly literature that supports alternative measures is found, this alternative intervention is what will be used and the rate of pressure sores will go down
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