GROW MORE INSTITUTE OF NURSING, HIMMATNAGAR
                            NURSING RESEARCH AND STATISTICS

Placement: Fourth Year	Time Allotted: Theory - 45 Hours		
Internship	Practical- 45	Hours	

Course Description:

The Course is designed to enable students to develop an understanding of basic concepts of research, research process and statistics. It is further, structured to conduct/ participate in need bi1sed research studies in various settings and utilize the research findings to provide quality nursing care. The hours for practical will be utilized for conducting individual/group research project.

	UNIT		Time		Contents		
			( Hrs)				

	I	4		Research and research process		
					Introduction and need		
				for nursmg research		
					Definition of Research		
				Nursing research		
					Steps at scientific		
					Characteristics of good		
				Research		
					Steps of Research		
				process-overview		
						
	II	3		Research Problem/Question		
				IdentIfication of problem area		
				Problem statement		
				Criteria of a good research problem.		
				Writing objectives		
						
	III	3		Review of Literature		
					Location		
					Sources		
					On line search;		
					CINHAL, COCHRANE Etc		
					Purposes		
					Method of review		
							
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IV	4	Research approaches and designs	
		Historical, survey and experimenta	
			Qualitative and	
			Quantitative designs	
			
V	8	Sampling and data	
		collection .	
		Definition of Population, Sample, Sampling criteria,	
		factors influencing	
		sampling process, types of sampling techniques.	
		Data- why, what, from	
		whom, when and where.'	
		to collect	
		Data collection methods	
		and instruments:	
		Methods of data collection	
		Questioning,	
		interviewing	
		Observations, record	
		analysis and measurement	
		Types of instruments	
		Validity & Reliability	
			of the Instrument	
		Pilot study	
		Data collection	
		procedure	
			
VI	4	Analysis of data:	
			Compilation,	
			Tabulation,	
			classification,	
			summarization,	
			presentation,	
			interpretation of data	
				
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VII		15	Introduction to statistics	
				
Definition use of statistics, scales of measurement

Frequency, distribution and graphical presentation of data

Mean, mediam, mode Standard deviation

Normal Probability and tendency and tests of significance

Co-efficient of correlation. Statistical packages and 

Its application 

VIII	4	Communication and	
			
utilization of Research

Communicate and utilize the research' findings.

0 Verbal report

0 Writing research report

0 Writing scientific article/paper

-	Critical review of published research 
-	Utilization of research findings 

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