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FACULTY OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITI MALAYA

http://medicine.um.edu.my

MID 3013: Nursing Research and Statistics
4 credits

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of the course students are able to:

1. Explain the concepts and principles related to research process, research utilization in
healthcare and nursing, literature review and the basics of data management and
analysis. (C2)
2. Determine the appropriate research designs, and methods, ethical considerations and
statistical tests according to research objectives. (C3)
3. Apply basic statistical knowledge and skills to analyse, interpret and report
the descriptive and inferential statistics findings. (C3)

Course Synopsis:

In this course, students will be introduced to research methodology and the steps of research
process. The role and responsibilities of nurses as consumer of research and utilization of
research finding in nursing practice will be discussed. Students will be encouraged to examine
published nursing research papers and its application to nursing practice.
The usage of statistics in health context such as basic concept of descriptive and inferential
statistics is also introduced. Student will learn the process of data entry and management, data
analysis, data interpretation and presentation, and reporting the results. A statistical analysis
software (e.g. SPSS IBM™) will be used in this course.

Reference Texts:

Heavey, E. (2018). Statistics for nursing: a practical approach (3 . ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones &
rd
Bartlett Learning.
Polit, D. F. & Beck, C. T. (2018). Essentials of nursing research: appraising evidence for nursing
practice (9 ed.). Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health.
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Course Assessment:

Course will be assessed by:

Continuous Assessment: 40%
• Test (20%)-week 7
• Assignment (20%)-week 14

Final Examination: 60%

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