Moch Susan D, Vandenbark R Todd, Pehler Shelley-Rae, Stombaugh Angela
Department of Nursing, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 105 Garfield Avenue, P.O. Box 4004, Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004, USA.
Vogel Library, Wartburg College, No. 225, 100 Wartburg Blvd, P.O. Box 1003, Waverly, IA 50677, USA.
Nurs Res Pract. 2016;2016:8749167. doi: 10.1155/2016/8749167. Epub 2016 Dec 18.
The purpose of this article is to describe action research in nursing education and to propose a definition of action research for providing guidelines for research proposals and criteria for assessing potential publications for nursing higher education. The first part of this project involved a search of the literature on action research in nursing higher education from 1994 to 2013. Searches were conducted in the CINAHL and MEDLINE databases. Applying the criteria identified, 80 publications were reviewed. The second part of the project involved a literature review of action research methodology from several disciplines to assist in assessing articles in this review. This article summarizes the nursing higher education literature reviewed and provides processes and content related to four topic areas in nursing higher education. The descriptions assist researchers in learning more about the complexity of both the action research process and the varied outcomes. The literature review of action research in many disciplines along with the review of action research in higher education provided a framework for developing a nursing-education-centric definition of action research. Although guidelines for developing action research and criteria for publication are suggested, continued development of methods for synthesizing action research is recommended.
本文旨在描述护理教育中的行动研究，并提出行动研究的定义，为护理高等教育的研究提案提供指导方针，为评估潜在出版物提供标准。本项目的第一部分涉及对1994年至2013年护理高等教育中行动研究的文献检索。检索在CINAHL和MEDLINE数据库中进行。应用确定的标准，对80篇出版物进行了审查。项目的第二部分涉及对多个学科的行动研究方法进行文献综述，以协助评估本综述中的文章。本文总结了所审查的护理高等教育文献，并提供了与护理高等教育四个主题领域相关的过程和内容。这些描述有助于研究人员更多地了解行动研究过程的复杂性和不同的结果。许多学科的行动研究文献综述以及高等教育中的行动研究综述为制定以护理教育为中心的行动研究定义提供了框架。虽然建议了开展行动研究的指导方针和出版标准，但建议继续开发综合行动研究的方法。
