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Innovation Research Design in Nursing.

Raul Rodriguez.

Florida National University.

June 9th, 2017.

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Innovative Research Design in Nursing

Nursing is a field with public health is one that has been faced with several issues. Some

of the issues include the new emerging diseases that still have no cure. This has made various

people to embark on the process of finding solution or answers to some of these issues. In

finding such solutions to such issues facing the field of nursing, there are various research

designs or methods that are being engaged in finding such answers. Some of the common

research designs include qualitative and quantitative research designs. However, as the

complexity of the issues that are currently facing the nursing industry has necessitated the use of

a different type of research design. This is the innovative research design. This paper will be a

literature review of innovative research design as a methodology that is used in the field of

nursing to find solutions to some of the issues.

Joshua J Gagne in his article argues that their ae various challenges that exist in the

advancement of the knowledge of and treatment of some of the diseases that are emerging or

rarely experienced (Gagne, 2014). This is because the rareness or the population that is affected

is so small that commercial interest is not attracted with regards to companies that engaging in

doing research with the aim of creating treatment for such rare diseases. The methodology that

has been used as Gagne puts has limited the ability of research groups to generate sufficient

evidence to help come up with a solution. However, Gagne believes that through the innovative

research designs various clinical and epidemiological trials have been done that have provided

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hope for having a more efficient and effective research for such issues that faces nursing as a

field.

Josee Audet and Gerald Amboise in their article explains that innovative research design

is one that combines some of the many research methods. They say that innovative research

designs combine several of approaches to a case study research. This is done through borrowing

of some of the positivist tradition, interpretive approaches and some aspects of qualitative

research methods. In particular, this research method is argued to entail activities such as

observation, analysis of data, description of the processes that are involved and discussion of the

results that are obtained with the aim of finding a solution to a problem that was in question

(Audet & Amboise, 2001). This article talks more about giving a description of what innovative

research design is through provision of the various aspects that constitute the research design. In

this project, the paper will see how the application of the innovative research in real world

experience using nursing.

James Martin in his article that innovative research design does not involve the creating

new research designs for such to be considered innovative. This today is not the case as

innovative research design is all about combining the known methods of research to help get

solutions to some of the issues that affects fields like nursing which is of particular focus in the

project. In doing innovative research, Martin argues that a researcher has to explain how they are

seeking to change the current research and such practices and such change are going to change

the overall outcome of events (Martin, 2013). Through the innovative research methods,

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improvements and refinements can be created to help provide solution to some of the issues that

are of particular interest.

Michelle Y. Williams explains that innovative research design is not involving only the

known research methods such as qualitative and quantitative research methods. She argues that

innovative research design is more than just using such methods, it is about using some of the

new technologies in exploring solutions for new issues that comes up within different fields such

as nursing (Williams, 2010). She argues that new technologies have help find solutions to some

of the rare and emerging diseases. This to Williams is what innovative research design is all

about. Using the new technologies to come up with new ideas that can help in creating or coming

up with solutions for situations such as cure for diseases. This project is going to explain how

new technologies have been used through innovative research design provide different solutions

to several situations that have been experienced in the nursing profession.

Nurten Kaya says that nursing care changes and therefore, there are certain challenges

that are experience due to the constant change in the nursing environment. There are various

changes that are experiences in terms of demographic and diseases. This has led to new demands

on the care system. This means that quality care is needed to improve patient safety care. This

can only occur if there is investment, support and resource allocation from the various agencies

that have affiliation to public health such as government and other organizations (Kaya, 2015).

Innovation research design has created methods that can be used to respond to the changes that

takes place in the nursing environment efficiently and effectively as can be required within the

nursing environment.

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Figure 1show the process that innovation research design takes

The design of the study

This study, that is innovative research design in nursing environment will be one of

review study. This is literature kind of review where various literature that is written by different

scholars and organizations regarding the issues that is the subject of the topic. Various literature

that are available will be reviewed in the subsequent parts of the project. This will include

making comparisons of the various opinions of people with regards to such literature. After

getting an understanding of the various opinions and views of different people with regards to

innovative research design in nursing environment, the paper will take a stand or an opinion to

help show the way forward with regards to use of innovative research design in nursing

environment.

The reason for making the research a review one is because there are various information

that has been provided by various people on the issue of innovation research design in the

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nursing environment. However, there seem to be so many conflicting information that need a

thorough analysis through review. Through review of the issue in discussion, it will enable the

project to come up with information that can be relied on with regards to the subject of

innovation research design in nursing environment.

Sampling methodology

There are two sampling methods that are used during a research that requires such

sampling for the research to continue. One of the type of such sampling methods is the

probability sampling where each member of a given population that is part of a research has the

probability of being selected to take part of the research. This include random sampling,

systematic sampling and stratifies sampling among many others. The other type of sampling

methods is non-probable sampling. This is where certain members of the population are left out

on the probability of being selected to take part of a research due to certain specific requirements

that are needed for the research.

Since innovative research design will be used in finding a cure for a contagious disease,

the sampling method that will be used is probable sampling where each member of the

population that will be selected can be chosen to take part in the research. This will make it easy

to calculate the margin of error. This is to show the degree of difference that the results of a

research can differ with the actual real world. In particular, random sampling will be the

sampling methodology that will be used as various people will be chosen to represent a sample

of the population in a random manner.

Necessary tools

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In the project, there are certain tools that will be necessary to ensure that the project is a

success. One of the tools will be various equipment that will be used during the project such as

paper for doing some questionnaires. Various people that will help in aiding the project will also

form part of the necessary tools to be used in the research. The various devices that will be used

in the project for example computers that will be used in doing the data analysis to enable the

project to come up with a conclusion that will be able to generate a solution to the problem that

the research in particular is trying to solve.

References

Audet, J., & Amboise, G. (2001). The Multi-Site Study: An Innovative Research Methodology.

The Qualitative Report, 1-20.

Gagne, J. J. (2014). Innovative Research methods for studying treatments for rare diseases:

methodology review. New York: BMJ company.

Kaya, N. (2015). Innovation in Nursing: A Concept Analysis . Journal of Community and Public

Health Nursing, 5-18.

Martin, J. (2013). How to engage in Innovative research design. Innovative Research, 17-26.

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Williams, M. Y. (2010). Nursing Technology Innovation and Research. Nursing Journal, 7-16.