Nursing research has grown rapidly in the 21st century with increased funding. Funding for nursing research from the National Institute of Nursing Research has grown from $70 million in 1999 to over $140 million in 2014. Nursing research is important for developing evidence-based practices, improving nursing education and care, and expanding the body of nursing knowledge. Future trends in nursing research will include a continued focus on evidence-based practice, stronger research designs, more emphasis on systematic reviews, innovation, expanded local research, increased collaboration, greater focus on culture and health disparities, and ensuring clinical significance and patient input.

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I year MSc nursing

3. Nursing research continues to develop at a rapid pace
and will undoubtedly flourish in the 21st century.
Funding continues to grow- for example, NINR
funding in fiscal year 2014 was more than $140
million compared to $70 million in 1999 and the
competition for available funding is increasingly
vigorous as more nurses seek support for testing
innovative ideas for practice improvements.
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5. Research is the process of systematically
obtaining accurate answers to significant
and pertinent questions by the use of the
scientific method of gathering and
interpreting information
(Clover & Balsley,1979)
Research is defined as a systematic and
scientific process to answer

7. Nursing research is a way to identify
new knowledge, improve professional
education and practices and use of
resources effectively.

9. Enhance the body of professional knowledge in
nursing
Provide foundation of EBN practices.
Help in expansion of knowledge, which is essential
for continued growth of nursing profession.
Identify nursing care practices that make a difference
in health care status of individuals and are cost-
effective.
Develop and refine nursing theories and principles.

10. FUTURE TRENDS IN RESEARCH

11. 1.CONTINUED FOCUS ON EBP:-
Encouragement for nurses to engage in evidence-
based patient care is sure to continue. In turn,
improvement will be needed both in the quality of
studies and in nurses skills in locating,
understanding, critiquing and using relevant study
result. Relatedly there is an emerging interest in
translational research—research on how findings
from studies can best be translated into practice.
Translation potential will require researchers to think
more strategically about long-term feasibility,
scalability, and sustainability when they test solutions
to problems.

12. 2.DEVELOPMENT OF A STRONGER EVIDENCE
BASE THROUGH CONFIRMATORY
STRATEGIES:-
practicing nurses are unlikely to adopt an innovation
based on weakly designed or isolated studies. Strong
research designs are essential, and confirmation is
usually needed through the replication of studies with
different client, in different clinical settings, and at
different time to ensure that the findings are robust.

13. 3.GREATER EMPHASIS ON SYSTEMATIC
REVIEW
systematic review are a cornerstone of EBP and will
take on increased importance in all health disciplines.
Systematic reviews rigorously integrate research
information on atopic so that conclusions about the
state of evidence can be reached. Best practice clinical
guidelines typically rely on such systematic reviews.

14. 4.INNOVATION
There is currently a major push for creative and
innovation solutions to recurring practice problems.
“Innovation” has become an important buzzword
throughout NIH and in nursing associations. For
example, the 2013 annual conference of the council for
the advancement of nursing science was “innovative
approaches to symptom science.”Innovative
interventions-and new methods for studying nursing
questions are sure to be part of the future research
landscape in nursing.

15. 5.EXPANDED LOCAL RESEARCH IN HEALTH
CARE SETTINGS:- small studies designed to solve
local problems will likely increase. This trend will be
reinforced as more hospitals apply for (and are
recertified for) magnet status in the united states and in
other countries. Mechanisms will need to be projects
becomes available to others facing similar problems,
such as communication within and between regional
nursing research alliances.

16. 6.STRENGTHENING OF INTERDISCIPLINARY
COLLABORATION: collaboration of nurses
with researchers in related fields is likely to expand in
the 21st century as researchers address fundamental
health care problems. In turn, such collaborative
efforts could lead to nurse researchers playing a more
prominent role in national and international health
care policies. One of four major recommendations in a
2010 report on the future of nursing by the institute of
medicine was that “nurses should be full partners with
physicians and other health care professionals in
redesigning health care”.

17. 7.INCREASE FOCUS ON CULTURAL ISSUES
AND HEALTH DISPARITIES:- the issues of health
disparities has emerged as a central concern in
nursing and other health disciplines; this in turn has
raised consciousness about the cultural sensitivity of
health interventions and the cultural competence of
health care workers. There is growing awareness that
research must be sensitive to the health belief,
behaviors, and values of culturally and linguistically
diverse populations.

18. 8.CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE AND PATIENT
INPUT:- research findings increasingly must meet the
test of being clinically significant, and patient have
taken center stage in efforts to define clinical
significance. A major challenge in the years ahead
will involve getting both research evidence and patient
preferences into clinical decisions, and designing
research to study the process and the outcomes.

19. Broad research priorities for the future have been
articulated by many nursing organizations,
including NINR and Sigma Theta Tau International.
Expert panel and research working
groups help NINR to identify gaps in current
knowledge that require research. The primary
areas of research funded by NINR in 2014 were
health promotion/disease prevention,
disparities, eliminating health disparities, care giving,
symptom management, and self management.

21. The priority for future nursing research will be the
promotion of excellence in nursing science. Toward
this end, nurse researchers and practicing nurses will
be sharpening their research skills and using those
skills to address emerging issues of importance to the
profession and its clientele.