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It was our last day of lecture when we had a so-called “RESEARCH ONLINE” there was a part there where we need to do a free essay about “What is your greatest fear about Research?” What I typed is what I will blog today… I will try to remember what I typed as much as possible. So here it goes:

Research is not just a “requirement” to complete a course. It is not just to punish students and give them a hard time. Yes, it is damn hard, harder than I thought. Research particularly Nursing Research is a subject that I really despise even though We, I and my group mates haven’t finish the whole research thing because it will be continued for the next semester I felt how hard it was. How it made me pressured and how it made my brain and heart heavy literally, how I have to carry it with me because of the infinite revisions, dreadful red marks that keep on appearing every time we submit our paper. Working through it, I thought we’ll never going to finish it because we don’t have enough knowledge about doing a research paper but nevertheless we finished it. We accomplished what is required for us to pass the subject. Nevertheless, that one thing scared me.

Research is the answer for many questions whether it is for educational, government, general or medical field. It is important because it is something that proves and makes decisions accurate. Another thing that fears me is that I won’t be able to defend what our group have done. To not be able to answer a certain research question that would be beneficial to the nursing profession will really make me a failure. I wanted to help the nursing profession even if I am still a student. With that, I would be able to contribute improvements on nursing care and interventions in my own little ways.

We haven’t had our defense this semester but we will have one next semester definitely. I just hope our group will be able to conquer that fear and be able to stand tall and defend our research topic because we certainly believe that this would be of great help for the nursing profession and future nursing researches.

If we fail, it would be the most heart-crushing experience that we will have after all the efforts, time, money, sweat, tears and blood we have invested just to accomplish our research. Plus, we won’t be able to graduate if we opt not to repeat the research all over again. I know a lot of students are in this dilemma. Well I just hope this excruciating experience won’t happen even in our dreams.

So help us God.

Posted by: Dianne Peña | 03-23-2008 | 06:03 PM
Posted in: Rhapsodies