Week 8:

Outcomes and Intervention Research/Measurement

Discuss the implications of the outcomes research tradition for nursing and nursing research.
Discuss the theoretical base for outcomes research.
Examine issues related to the emerging outcomes research methodologies.
Discuss strategies used to disseminate outcomes research findings.
Identify a nursing problem that could be addressed with outcomes research methodology.
Define nursing interventions.
Explore problems with the “true experiment.”
Describe the process of conducting intervention research.
Examine the common measurement approaches used in nursing research: physiological measures, observations, interviews, questionnaires, and scales.

Require Reading:

Read: Groves, Burns- Chapters 13,14 and 17

Read: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by R. Skloot-Chapters 26-30

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