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Ogun State College of Nursing Science, Ijebu-Ode. Course: Research Name: Olayemi Oluwatoyin Elizabeth MATRIC NO: 3495 Course Code: NRG 216

The document discusses nurses' roles in research using the consumer/producer concept. It explains that nurses can engage in research along a continuum, from being indirect consumers of research to active producers of research. As consumers, nurses read research to stay updated, and research utilization depends on intelligent consumers. Producers actively design and conduct studies. The document also lists various research activities nurses can participate in between these roles, such as collaborating on studies or evaluating research. Finally, it discusses the relationship between consumers and producers in research and specific roles nurses play, such as identifying patients, ensuring informed consent, and supporting studies.

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Ogun State College of Nursing Science, Ijebu-Ode. Course: Research Name: Olayemi Oluwatoyin Elizabeth MATRIC NO: 3495 Course Code: NRG 216

The document discusses nurses' roles in research using the consumer/producer concept. It explains that nurses can engage in research along a continuum, from being indirect consumers of research to active producers of research. As consumers, nurses read research to stay updated, and research utilization depends on intelligent consumers. Producers actively design and conduct studies. The document also lists various research activities nurses can participate in between these roles, such as collaborating on studies or evaluating research. Finally, it discusses the relationship between consumers and producers in research and specific roles nurses play, such as identifying patients, ensuring informed consent, and supporting studies.

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OGUN STATE COLLEGE OF NURSING SCIENCE, IJEBU-ODE.

COURSE: RESEARCH

NAME: OLAYEMI OLUWATOYIN ELIZABETH

MATRIC NO: 3495

COURSE CODE: NRG 216

TUTOR-IN-CHARGE: MRS ALIU

TOPIC: Nurses role in research using the consumer/producer concept

With the current emphasis on Evidence based practice, it has become every nurse's responsibility to
engage in one or more rules along a continuum of research particpation. At one end of the continuum
are those nurses whose involvement in research is indirect. Consumers of nursing research read
research reports to develop new skills and to keep up to date on relevant findings that may affect their
practice. Nurses increasingly are expected to maintain this level of involvement with research, at a
minimum. Research utilization-the use of research findings in a practice setting- depends on intelligent
nursing research consumers.

At the other end of the continuum are the producers of nursing research: nurses who actively
participate in designing and implementing research studies. At one time, most nurse researchers were
academics who taught in schools of nursing, but research is increasingly being conducted by practicing
nurses who want to find what works best for their patients.

Between these two end points on the continuum lie a rich variety of research activities in which nurses
engage as a way of improving their effectiveness and enhancing their professional lives. These activities
include the following:

1. participating in a journal club in a practice setting, which involves regular meetings among nurses to
discuss and critique research art3. Discussing the implications and relevance of research findings with
clients.

4.Giving clients information and advice about participation in studies.

5.Assisting in the collection of research information (e.g distributing questionnaires to patients ) .

6. Reviewing a proposed research plan with respect to its feasibility in a clinical setting and offering
clinical expertise to improve the plan.

7.Collaborating in the development of an idea for a clinical research project.

8. Participating on an institutional committee that reveals the ethical aspect of proposed research
before it is undertaken.

9.Evaluating completed research for its possible use in practise and using it when appropriate.

In all this activities, nurses with some research skills are in a better position than those without
them to make a contribution to nursing knowledge. An understanding of nursing research can improve
the depth and breadth of every nurses professional practice.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONSUMER AND PRODUCER OF NURSING RESEARCH

1. Solving clinical problems and making clinical decisions based on rigorous research

2. Offering clinical expertise to improve the research plan

3. Recruit the study participants

4. Guiding participants in studies

5. Discussing the implications and relevance of research findings with clients.

NURSES ROLE IN RESEARCH

1. Identifying and screening potential patients

2. Making sure that patients have all the necessary information to allow them to make a fully informed
decision about whether they want to participate in a study

3. Ensuring that patients give fully informed consent before they are enrolled in a study

4. Supporting the Principal Investigator (PI) by coordinating the day to day management of research
studies

5. Providing on-going support to patients throughout their time as a participant.

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