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Researching Nursing Informatics in a Digital Age

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To ensure that nurses are able to practice in evidence informed environments, nursing research has become an essential part of the profession. This chapter provides a foundational overview of the research process commonly used in nursing study, while highlighting how informatics can contribute to the research process but also be a researched topic in itself. The chapter begins with a detailed description of the common steps taken when conducting nursing research for both nursing informatics and other topics. Then, a number of ways nursing informatics can be used to support the research process itself are given using practical examples. The chapter concludes with a discussion of current and future opportunities for nursing informatics research.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

    Tracie Risling

  2. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Gillian Strudwick

  3. Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Gillian Strudwick

  4. Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Western University, London, ON, Canada

    Richard Booth

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health, Center of eIntegrated Care, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Pamela Hussey

  2. Center of Excellence, Gevity Consulting Inc and Kennedy Health Informatics Inc, Halifax, NS, Canada

    Margaret Ann Kennedy

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Glossary

CINAHL

Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature

Data mining

Semi-automatic exploration of large data sets, looking for meaning through patterns in the data

Grey literature

Information sources outside of formal academic or peer reviewed journals (such as industry magazines, newspapers, social media, etc.)

Knowledge translation

The synthesis, dissemination and exchange of knowledge by researchers to the targeted knowledge users

MEDLINE

Database of biomedical literature

MeSH

Medical Subject Headings is a vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles in PubMed

Mixed methods research

The research approach combining both qualitative and quantitative research methods

NLP

Natural language processing

Nursing research

Systematic inquiry designed to generate evidence for the nursing profession, including nursing practice, education, administration, and informatics

PsychINFO

Database of behavioural and mental health literature

Qualitative research

Investigation of phenomena, typically in an in-depth and holistic fashion, through the collection of rich narrative materials using a flexible research design

Quantitative research

Investigation of phenomena that lend themselves to precise measurement and quantification, often involving a rigorous and controlled design

UTAUT

Unified Theory of Technology Acceptance and Use

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Risling, T., Strudwick, G., Booth, R. (2021). Researching Nursing Informatics in a Digital Age. In: Hussey, P., Kennedy, M.A. (eds) Introduction to Nursing Informatics. Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58740-6_12

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