Poster Presentation
Friday, 21 July 2006
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Friday, 21 July 2006
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
This presentation is part of : Poster Presentations III
A Case Study of the "Gourmet Nursing Research" Situated Learning Model
Michael Farruggia, RN, PhD, Nursing, Boise Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Boise, ID, USA
Learning Objective #1: use the Gourmet Nursing Research Situated Learning Model, to identify innovative non-traditional ways to encourage evidence based practice by nurses.
Learning Objective #2: have their interest in evidence based practice stimulated through the "Gourmet Nursing Research" Situated Learning Model.
“My compliments to the Chef” was barely heard over the thunderous applause, as the flames from the “Bananas Foster” shot upward during the cooking demonstration at the Gourmet Research workshop.  “Gourmet” research is an educational construct Gieselman, Stark, and Farruggia (2000) created to teach research to nurses, similar to how television shows teach cooking to viewers.  In televised cooking shows the chef will start by showing the meal that is to be prepared.  They then show the meal in various phases of preparation and conclude with the finished product. 
In this study the problem for needing evidence-based practice was identified.  The research purpose was to determine if nurses who attended a research workshop entitled “Gourmet Research,” better understand research, have had their interest in research stimulated, and have incorporated research into their nursing practice compared to nurses who did not attend the workshop.  
A foundation of literature regarding evidence-based practice, and a Whole-Part-Whole theoretical foundation for the Gourmet Research workshop was discussed.  A case study design was utilized.  Six nurses (two A.D.N., two B.S.N., and two with graduate level preparation) were interviewed.   Three of these nurses (one from each education level) attended the Gourmet Research workshop and three of them did not.  Interview data was compared and contrasted with historical data from the Gourmet Research workshop.  Themes were identified and information gathered was aggregated.   
This analysis of the data provided inferences that suggested the Gourmet Research workshop participants better understand research, have had their interest in research stimulated, and have incorporated research into their nursing practice, as compared to the participants who did not attend the Gourmet Research workshop.  This study affirmed that staff nurses need to understand the research process and should participate in research.  Nurse educators need to determine methods to best stimulate nurses’ interest surrounding research issues.

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