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Fall, 2002
2 credit hours
Course by Carol E. Smith, RN, PhD
NURS 460, Nursing Research
Course designed by Carol E. Smith, RN, PhD
The research course is divided into units or modules; all assignments
in each unit must be completed.
The units have reading assignments and learning activities. Learning
activities vary but may include practice exams, online interactive
lectures, study questions, research terminology slides, online group
discussion and self/course evaluations. Interaction with the instructor via electronic
mail will be reserved for individual student questions about their grade.
Other questions about the course or an assignment should be placed
(posted) on group discussion because other students will want that
information also.
Any activity the student is to do is underlined and often highlighted.
Move the mouse cursor over the underlined word and "click" or press on the
mouse button. That will take you to the activity that you are assigned to
do.
The units have reading assignments from the course textbook and
from research literature. Each unit is paced over a two week time
period, and readings for that should be done prior to the learning
activities for that unit.
Each module assignment also includes a summary of the purpose of that
unit, the chapters to be read, the reading and adding to online
discussion, required learning activities - including study questions and
research terminology that you'll want to be able to define.
By doing the readings, discussing study questions, and increasing your
research terminology or vocabulary, you will succeed in learning the
research process - and more importantly - in applying research findings to
your own practice. Nurses want their everyday interventions with patients
to be scientifically based on research.
Now if you need orientation to the internet,
click here. Otherwise, continue
into the course.
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Just How
Fast Can You React?
Play
this Game and Find Out!
Steps
to playing the game:
- Push start.
- Watch the box that says wait.
- Push stop as soon as the box reads "stop"
Write down the data or your reaction time. Try this 5 times and calculate a
mean score...this mean should vary between doing this in the early morning and
later in the evening!!
Report what you get. So it is not only how but when you collect
physiologic data that can make a difference in your results. Thanks for trying
this! -Carol
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