European Academy of Nursing Science and the Swedish Society of Nursing Summer Conference 2017: The Future Direction of European Nursing and Nursing Research

Abstract

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS K1 My life in research methods in nursing Denise F. Polit1,2 ([email protected]) 1 Humanalysis, Inc., Saratoga Springs, NY, USA; 2Griffith University, Centre for Health Practice Innovation, Brisbane, QLD, Australia Dramatic changes have occurred during my 40+ years of teaching research methods to nurses and nursing students, including important transformations within the profession, an explosive growth in published research by nurses, greater inter-professional collaboration, increased funding opportunities, and stunning methodologic and technologic advances. In the pilot evaluation phase, quantitative and qualitative methods are applied to examine: 1) the feasibility and satisfaction with each component, the intervention as-a-whole, and mode and dose of delivery; 2) the mechanisms underlying the effects of the intervention and its components on intended and unintended outcomes; and 3) the contextual factors (related to the characteristics of the target population, professionals, setting) that facilitate and/or hinder the fidelity of intervention and components implementation, satisfaction, and outcomes. K3 Humanitus: returning to the essential principles of clinical nursing care David A. Richards1, Ania Willman2 1 University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, United Kingdom; 2 Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden Correspondence: David A. Richards ([email protected]) In a discussion of nursing’s legacy and how to take the discipline’s research forward, we will first highlight contemporary issues in the western world’s health care of today. [...]to paraphrase Nightingale herself, has the science of nursing led to “feelings wasted in words” and not “distilled into actions which bring results”?