Topic 1 DQ 1
After reviewing the course textbook, summarize the history of nursing research. Discuss the importance of nursing research as it relates to applying evidence in practice (evidence-based practice).
Initial discussion question posts should be a minimum of  200 words and include at least two references cited using APA format.
Topic 1 DQ 2
The first step of the evidence-based practice process is to evaluate a nursing practice environment to identify a nursing problem in the clinical area. When a nursing problem is discovered, the nurse researcher develops a clinical guiding question to address that nursing practice problem.
For this discussion question, you will create a clinical guiding question known as a PICOT question. The PICOT question must be relevant to a nursing practice problem (coordination of health care, assessment, education, patient support, trauma prevention, recovery, health screenings, etc.).
After reviewing the relevant topic materials:
Select a nursing practice problem of interest.
Develop a PICOT question using the template and example provided below.
Identify two articles, one qualitative and one quantitative, related to the problem of interest. Provide an APA-formatted reference for each article, and explain how each relates to your PICOT question. Be sure to identify which article is qualitative and which article is quantitative. These articles may be used in this week’s assignment.
PICOT question intervention format:

In_______________(Population), how does _______________ (Intervention) compared to _______________ (Comparison) affect _______________ (Outcome) within______________(Time, optional)?
Example: In critically ill patients in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) (P), how do daily 2% chlorhexidine cloth baths (I) compared to daily disposable non-antimicrobial cloth baths (C) affect the incidence of health care-associated infections (HAIs) (O)?
c form” (HHS, 2017b, para. 1).
History of Nursing Research
Florence Nightingale was the ?rst nurse researcher. Her ?rst research study took place
during the Crimean War in 1854. The war took place on the outskirts of Constantinople,
Turkey. Nightingale started collecting data about the injured soldiers, including
information about their injuries and whether they died. She took what she learned, applied
her knowledge of statistics to the data she collected, and came up with some very
signi?cant results. The statistics showed that hundreds of the soldiers were dying from
communicable and infectious diseases. She took her knowledge about cleanliness and
the importance of a clean environment and applied it to current war environment.
Nightingale believed if the environment was kept clean, the soldiers would not be exposed
to infection or communicable diseases (Karimi & Alavi, 2015). With the knowledge gained
from collecting data on the soldiers and their causes of death, Nightingale saved the lives
of many men and women. In 1859, Florence Nightingale published Notes on Nursing,
which described how environment can affect and promote health. This was basically the
?rst nursing research article ever published. It took many years before any more nursing
research was performed. Twenty years later, the committee for the Study of Nursing
Education issued the Goldmark Report, which “identi?ed educational inadequacies of
nurses and believed that advanced educational preparation was essential for nursing.