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Nursing Research Exam 1 NUR 265 GVSU – Questions and Answers
Nursing Research Exam 1 NUR 265 GVSU – Questions and Answers
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Nursing Research Exam 1 NUR 265GVSU – Questions and Answers
Evidence-based Practice - -Integration of best research and clinical expertise
-Research Evidence - -Empirical knowledge from studies
-Quality Improvement - -Initiatives with a goal for patient improvement
-Qualitative research - -No variables, humanistic, does NOT test theories,
creates theories, NO hypothesis, NO variables.
-Quantitative research - -Formal, objective, systematic process with
numerical data. Has a hypothesis, variables. Is an experimental process. If
little is known about a topic, often start with Qual then move to Quant.
-BSN role in research - -Read and critically appraise studies. Use best
research evidence in practice with guidance. Assist with research problem
identification and data collection
-Nightingale's type of research - -Quantitative
-Beneficence - -Above all do no harm
-Justice - -Treat fairly re: risks and benefits of research
-Informed Consent - -Disclosure, comprehension, competence to consent,
voluntary consent
-Comprehension - -Understand purpose, risks, etc.
-Self-Determination - -Respect of persons
-Research misconduct - -Fabrication, falsification, plagiarism
-Competence - -Capable of understanding--no mental incompetence
-Institutional Review Board - -A committee that reviews research to ensure
that the investigator is conduction it ethically.
-Conceptual Definition - -More comprehensive than a dictionary. Includes
feelings, moods, provides the basis for Operational Definition. Found in
Background and Literature Review. "How Others Define it" and "How It's
Applied". Has a theoretical meaning.
, -Operational Definition - -Defining the terms in order to determine the
nature of an item. "How you measure it"
-Confounding Variables - -Variables that aren't recognized until the study is
in process. Unexpected.
-Dependent Variables - -The outcome DEPENDS on this. This is what is
predicted or explained.
-Independent Variables - -Manipulated or varied to create an effect on the
dependent variable. I=Intervention
-Problem statment - -Identifies specific gap in knowledge
-Research purpose - -Clear, concise, specific goal
-Research problem - -Area of concern; gap in knowledge
-Hypothesis - -Formal statement of expected relationship between 2 or
more variables
-Null Hypothesis - -Opposite of hypothesis
-Secondary source - -Summarizes and/or quotes from primary source
-Primary source - -Written by the person who originated the idea
-Seminal Study - -First/Initial studies on a particular topic
-Synthesis of Sources - -involves compiling the findings from all of the
selected studies and analyzing and interpreting those findings
-Peer review - -evaluation of scientific, academic, or professional work by
others working in the same field.
-Purpose Statement - -The goal for the study
-Concepts - -terms that abstractly describe and name an object, idea or
experience
-Conceptual definition - -the abstract or theoretical meaning of a concept
being studied
-Models - -representations of objects or systems
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