Research Articles
A research article should include
the following:
● Title ●
Author(s) ●
Abstract ● Introduction ●
Method
● Results ●
Discussion ●
Conclusion ●
Reference List
Title: A title is important because it is
the first exposure a reader has to an article and a good title
may provide
information about what the article is about.
Title: Culture-derived strategies of a paediatric home-care nursing specialty team
Author(s): There should be author(s) along with their credentials.
By M. W. Byrne,
CPNP, MPH, PhD, MNB, Associate Professor of Nursing, Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, USA
Abstract: The abstract should include information about the research such as the
purpose,
method, results, conclusion, and
clinical relevance.
This is an
ethnographic study of one paediatric home-care nursing specialty team that cares
for children and their families affected by perinatal
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease. Observations made by the
investigator as part of a larger study suggested that the intricacy and
breadth of nursing
knowledge and actions that were actually used far exceeded what the
standard documentation recorded.
Introduction: The introduction should include:
● Statement of problem ● Purpose of the research or study
● Citations to the author's
sources ● Expected results
The study reported here is part of a
larger study of paediatric home care for children
exposed perinatally to maternal HIV disease. The
larger study is in its third year and is funded by the National Institute
of Nursing Research (part of the National Institutes of Health in the
Method:
This section should
explain how the research or study was conducted and include
instrumentation, procedure, and data analysis.
Participant
observation of home nursing
visits, chart reviews and interactions with visiting nurses, were part of
the data-collection methods within the larger study.
Analysis across
themes suggested four essential elements of the visit process, as perceived
and lived by the nurses. These were: the pursuit; the connection; the work;
and the disengagement (Fig. 1).
Results: The results section presents the data analysis and may include tables,
charts, and figures.
Discussion:
The discussion
section presents the author's major conclusions and research
based on sound data and conclusions.
In the course of
implementing a study on assessment of selected domains in home nursing visits to families
with HIV-exposed children, it became clear that the priorities of that
study were not synchronous with the daily experience of the visiting
nurses. This was all the more impressive given that the study had been
planned with agency input. While they remained interested in the study of
growth, interaction, nutrition and immune support, they were distracted by
the threats to their continued visits. While this situation served
initially as a temporary barrier to implementation of the planned study,
ultimately it led to a deeper and more complete investigation of the model
of care intuitively used by the nurses.
Conclusion:This includes a brief restatement of the results and
the implications of the research.
Only key points are given in the conclusion.
The full scope of nursing strategies for
assisting and empowering families who care for ill and well children at
home is largely invisible. These strategies exist primarily in undocumented
experience and are transmitted verbally to family caregivers and other
nurses. Nurses need to identify, claim and celebrate their effectiveness in
home-care delivery.
Reference List
Anastasi, J.M. (1998) Innovations
in Care: Neonatal Home Antibiotic Infusion Therapy. Neonatal Network
Journal of Neonatal Nursing, 17 (4), 33-38.
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