NSE 222 Weeks 1-3 Questions and Answers Graded A+
What is nursing research?
the systematic, rigorous, logical investigation with the aim of answering questions about nursing phenomena
What is phenomena?
occurrences, circumstances, or facts that are perceptible by the senses.
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NSE 222 Weeks 1-3 Questions and
Answers Graded A+
What is nursing research? - answer the systematic, rigorous, logical investigation
with the aim of answering questions about nursing phenomena
What is phenomena? - answer occurrences, circumstances, or facts that are
perceptible by the senses.
What is the significance of research to practice? - answer - Expands the discipline's
unique body of scientific knowledge
- Forms the foundation for evidence-informed nursing practice
- Allows practice to change with work environments and the most common health issues
- Maintains the profession's societal relevance
What is evidence-informed decision making? - answer Evidence-informed decision
making is a continuous, interactive process involving the explicit, conscientious, and
judicious consideration of the best available evidence to provide care (CNA, 2010).
What is inductive reasoning vs. deductive reasoning? - answer - Inductive reasoning:
Starts with details of experience and move to a general picture.
- Deductive reasoning: Starts with a general picture and move to a specific direction;
uses two or more concepts.
Do qualitative researchers typically use inductive or deductive reasoning? - answer
Inductive!
What are the levels of evidence? - answer 1. Qualitative or mixed-methods
systematic review
2. Qualitative or mixed-methods synthesis
3. Single qualitative study
4. Systematic review of expert opinion
5. Expert opinion
What are the steps in knowledge development? - answer Knowledge gap >
knowledge generation > Knowledge distribution > Knowledge adoption > Knowledge
review and revision
What does theoretical knowing involve? - answer - Theoretical knowing is concerned
with developing or testing theories or ideas that nurse researchers have about how the
world operates.
- Theoretical knowing is informed by empirical knowing, which involves observations of
reality.
, What does qualitative research involve? - answer - Used to describe, explore and
give meaning to life experiences
- Systematic, interactive and subjective research method
- Data are words or text, rather than numerical, in order to describe the experiences that
are being studied.
- Occurs in naturalistic settings, one that people live in every day.
- Researchers believe that reality is socially constructed and context dependent (the
environment is not separated from the experience)
- Bring researchers very close to participants lived experience
- Generates in-depth insight through speaking with or observing people to create
meaning
- Seek to understanding what things mean to people as this makes actions and
intentions clear. Things that are important are often unspoken or inexpressible
What is a paradigm? - answer A "set of beliefs and practices, shared by communities
of researchers," that guide the knowledge development process.
What is the post-positivist paradigm? - answer Phenomenon or problem exists but
can only be imperfectly
What is the critical social paradigm? - answer Phenomenon or problem is shaped by
power structures
Aims
- Critique and questions the status quo
- Empower and bring about change
- Emancipation
- Reconstruction of what we know to be true
What is the constructivist paradigm? - answer Phenomenon or problem is not static
but is socially constructed
Aims
- Search for meanings and understanding through people's experiences
- Reconstruction of what we know to be true
What is the ontology of constructivism? - answer - philosophical orientation that
supports the fact that reality is subject to individual perceptions
- no absolute truth; truth is relative and subjective
What is the epistemology of constructivism? - answer - Research is a transaction
occurring between the researcher and participant
- Emphasizes meaning ascribed to human experiences
- Objectivity is not desired goal
What is the methodology used with constructivism? - answer - Inquiry includes
dialogue between the researcher and participant
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