Research activities

1. SMT. DAKUBEN SAREMALJI SANCHETI NURSING INSTITUTE, SUMERPUR
Management of Nursing
Services & Education
Research Activities
Unit – 8 “Professional Advancement”
2020

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Research Activities
{Membership, Participation
and Publication}
INTRODUCTION
The nurse as an employee in any health care Institution or Hospital has the right to become
a member of any union of nursing. Professor nursing associations have provided leadership
that affects many areas of nurses; it is a fundamental right of the nurse to become a
member of a state & central council of nursing. The union govt. has set up the Indian Nursing
Council (INC). byan act of parliament in 1947.
MEMBERSHIP WITH A PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION
Professional nursing organizations provide a means through which membership efforts can
be channelled. They also provide opportunities for expansion of viewpoints develop
leadership ablities and provide current information of professional news and trends.
Registration is of vital importance for a professional nurse.
1. Trained Nurse Association of India (TNAI):
a) Founded in Lucknow in 1905.
b) These include upgrailing development and standardization of nursing
education, Improvement of Iiving and working conditions for nurses an India and
registration of qualified nurses.
c) Providing membership with fees.
2. Student Nurses Association (SNA):
a) The SNA was established in 1929. It provides a means of personal and pro
fessional development for nursing students.
b) Membership fees in the SNA are minimal and easily met by the nursing
student. The arrangement for transfer of membership to the TNAI is made
convenient for the new professional nurse whereby he/she can establish
membership in the parent organization immediately.
c) Nursing students who participate in the SNA have a valuable opportunity to
begin to develop leadership abilities, social poise, competitive skills and an interest

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in the profession as a whole.
3. International Council of Nurses (ICN):
a) The ICN, founded in 1899 by Mrs Bedford Fenwick, is a federation of non-
political and self-governing national nurses association. Its headquarters is in
Geneva.
b) All nurses can become members of the ICN but not as individuals. An
individual nurse can become a member if her or his national nurses association is a
member of the ICN.
c) Nurses in India become members of the ICN when they become members of
the TNAL Affiliation fees for this membership are paid from a proportion of the
membership fees paid to the TNAI.
d) Membership in the ICN through the TNAI offers various benefits to an
individual nurse.
e) The ICN provides an organization through which member national associations
can work together for the mission of representing nursing worldwide, advancing the
profession and influencing health policy. The five core values of ICN are visionary
leadership, inclusiveness, flexibility, partnership and achievement. The official
journal of the ICN is “International Nursing Review”.
4. The Commonwealth Nursees Federation:
a) The TNAI is also affiliated with the Commonwealth Nurses Federation which is
a nurses association begun by the Commonwealth Fund dation. It is made up of
associations from Commonwealth countries. The headquarters of the federation is
in London.
b) The aims of the organization are, in general, to promote sharing, better
communications and closer relationships between its member associations.
c) It also provides expert professional advice, scholarships for advanced study,
financial assistance for professional meetings and seminars and an office through
which funds can be received and disbursed for the benefit of nurses in the countries
which are represented.
5. State Nursing Councils (SNC):
The salient features of this Act are as follows:
a) provision for an autonomous body, comprising the majority of nurses,

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endowed with decision-making powers
b) Compulsory registration for all nurses and midwives practising within the
state
c) Provision of nurses, midwives and public health nurses to elect their own
representatives to the respective state
d) Powers to regulate nursing education, prescribed curriculum and enunciate
examination policies
e) Provision to have a nurse registrar to carryout the functions of the SNC
f) Provision for recognition of educational Institutions of nursing and withdrawal
of such recognition, if necessary
g) Different types of basis as well as post basic nursing training programmes
are conducted bysome of the SNC.
6. The Nurse League of the Christian Medical Association of India:
a) The nurse's league of the Christian Medical Association of India (CMAI) was
founded in 1930 as the nurse's auxiliary of the CMAL. The name was changed from
Nurses Auxiliary to Nurse's League in 1965. It became affiliated to the TNAI in 1936
and promotes member ship in this organization.
b) Membership fees are required and a life membership is available. Nursing
students may become associate members of the league. Membership in the Nurse's
League may be a requirement for certain nursing positions under control of
Christian employing authority.
c) Special activities of the Nurse's League include rational and area conferences
and retreats for its members. Development of leadership abilities is encouraged by
participation in these meetings where professional papers and exhibits of high
qualityare given.
7. Indian Nursing Council (INC):
a) The INC. which was authorized by the Indian Nursing Council Act of 1947, was
established in 1949 for the purpose of providing uniform standards in nursing
education and reciprocityin nursing registration throughout the country,
b) Nurses registered in one state were not necessarily recognized for
registration in another state before this time.
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maintenance of the Indian nurses register.
d) The register contains names of all nurses, midwives, auxiliary nurse-
midwives, and paranursing workers who are enrolled on all state egisters.
8. Sigma Theta Tau (STT):
STT, the international honour society in nursing was founded in 1922 and its
headquarters is in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. The Greek letters stand for the Greek
words storga, thoros and tima meaning love', 'courage' and 'honour'. The society is a
member of Association of College Honor Society. The society's purpose is a
professional rather than a social institution. Membership is attained through
academic achievement. Students in baccalaureate programmes in nursing and
nurses in master's, doctoral and postdoctoral programmes are eligible to be
selected for membership. Potential members who hold a minimum of a bachelor's
degree and have demonstrated achievement in nursing can apply for membership as
a nurse leader in the community. The official journal of Sigma Theta Tau, “Journal of
Nursing Scholarship”, is published quarterly. The journal publishes scholarly articles
of interest to nurses.
The society also publishes Reflections, a quarterly newsletter that provides
information about the organization.
PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Research is a systematic investigation to discover facts ar collect information. it is a
scientist process with variable results Research findings answer questions based on facts.
Nowadays there is a demand for search in each and every field. Nursing research also plays
a vital role in the education of nurses.
RESEARCH PROCESS
The essential steps of the research process:
1. Definition of the problem, inchiding what others have experienced, leated and thought
about the problem
2. Delineation of the facts for study
3. Determination of the facts pertinent to the focus of study.
4. Employment of appropriate and expedient techniques and precise measurements for
collectown of facts with due consideration to adequate control of factors other than

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the variables under investigation
5. Decision about degree of breadth and depth sought, which in turn influence the
nature, scope and sourney of facts well as the characterization of subjects selected
for study
6. Submission of quantitative and quantifiable data to statistical analysis
7. Selection of the data analysis to be done and use of original imaginative thinking to
reveal preciouslyundiagnosed relationships between variables
8. Presentation of findings and results of analysis in communicative and verifiable form.
NEED FOR RESEARCH IN NURSING
1. to mould the attitudes, intellectual competence and technical skills of nurses
2. to fill in the gaps in knowledge and practise
3. To foster commitment and accountability
4. To provide basis for professionalism
5. To identify the role of nurses in changing society
6. To discover new measures for nursing practice
7. To help to take prompt decision in administration related problems
8. To help to improve the standards in nursing education
9. To refine the existing theories and discover new ones.
PURPOSES OF RESEARCH IN NURSING
1. Identification and description: In this, the researcher observes and classifies the
problem
2. Exploration: The researcher investigates the full nature of the phenomenon
3. Explanation: The goal of explanatory research is to understand the underpinnings of
specific phenomena and to explain systematic relationships among phenomena
4. Prediction and control: The researcher makes predictions and control phenomena
based on research findings even in the absence of complete understanding.
RESPONSIBILITY OF NURSES IN DOING RESEARCH
1. To read and interpret report of research in own nurung field
2. To identityareas of nursing which research is needed
3. To collaborate intelligently with researchers

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4. To discuss with patients anyresearch in which theyare being asked to participate
5. To use research findings is a basis for teaching
6. To plan and supervise students project work in a way which will help the students to
develop thinking questioning observing and analysing capabilities
7. To obtain information about resources (financial human, mechanical, etc.).
8. To monitor the progress of research project
9. To acquire skill in application of research technology.
Preparation and Participation in Research Activities
Training: Any intellectual nurse can go into netearch because nunes have been trained to be
sharp observer in designing studies, selecting appropriate techniques analysing data,
reporting the finding judging and making decisions and applying the findings in the work
situation
Other disciplines: Nume educators must select the best that the disciplines has to offer
and then apply these learning in practise Doctoral studies by nurses provide varied
information Finding of the student doctorates can be published and shared with others who
could bendfit from them.
Student nurse: A beginner student in nursing is academically prepared to learn the basic
methodeologyand technologies of research.
Schools of nursing offer research methodology at different levels in a graduate programme.
They have adequate knowledge and skills they have attached from their previous education
preparation included in their graduate work.
PUBLICATIONS: JOURNALS AND NEWSPAPERS
Types of Journals
1. Open access: Open access journal and scholarly and are available to readers
without finance or other barrien other than access to the Internet itself some are
subsidized, and ome quire payment of behalf of the author. Subsidized journals ane
financed byan academic institute- tution or a government information centre.
2. Public journal: A public journal is a record of day-by-day events in a parliament or
cong It also called minutes or records
3. Business journals: Business journals are those books in which transactions are
entered the first time theyare processed.

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Guidelines for Writing in Journals and Newspapers
1. The article should original, should not have been published not sent lot publication
any where else. A certificate to this effect. duly signed by the author must be
attached/enclosed
2. The heading of the article must be typed along with author's name and official title
which ane meant for publication
3. Each page of the article should be numbered starting with page one. The last page
should have, beside the page number the word har
4. The article should not be too long, it should not contain more than 3000 words. Edit
your article and reduce it to the requivitie length bifore sendinig it for publication.
The ideal length 3000 words
5. send only one article at a time. A subsequent article article should be sent only after
the earlier article has been published.
6. The peran sending the abstract must give the name of his/her guide if he/she is a
student and the studymet forwarded bythe principal
7. The research abstract must be submitted in nnt methan 200 words.
Research Articles
Original qualitative research paper are published under this section: The maximum word list
for research articles is 3000 words. The abstract should not exceed 200 words.
Format for Research Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Statement of problem
3. Objectives
4. Background of the study
5. Relevant literature review
6. Methodology
7. Findings (in detail
8. Discussion
9. Conceptual framework that may be needed
Indian journals list:
1. Nightingale Nurse Times.
2. Indian Journal of Psychiatric Nursing.

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3. Nursing Trends.
4. Indian Journal of Nursing Studies.
5. Indian Journal of Holistic Nursing. etc