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Importance of research in nursing
Research findings provide evidence for informing nurses' decisions and actions.
Best served group by clinical nursing research
Nurses' clients.
Area where research plays an important role in nursing (US)
Nurses' education.
Role of a consumer of nursing research
Read research reports for relevant findings.
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Concern of most nursing studies in the early 1900s
Nursing education.
Topic conforming to future nursing research priorities
Promotion of excellence in nursing science.
Process of deductive reasoning
Developing specific predictions from general principles.
Ontological assumption of naturalistic paradigm
Reality is multiply constructed and multiply interpreted by humans.
Epistemological assumption of positivist paradigm
The researcher is objective and independent of those being studied.
Characteristic not of traditional scientific method
Emphasis on a holistic view of a phenomenon, studied in a rich context.
Definition of empiricism
Gathering evidence rooted in reality.
Hallmark of the scientific method
Systematic.
Limitation of scientific method to answer questions about human life
The difficulty of accurately measuring complex human traits.
Criticism of the scientific method
Reductionist.
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Naturalistic qualitative research
Takes place in the field.
Type of study investigating effect of patients' body position on blood pressure
Quantitative.
Type of study on effect of massage on pain alleviation in cancer patients
Applied.
Researcher's paradigmatic orientation studying treatment decisions for infertility
Naturalism.
Continuum of participation in research
Consumers to producers.
Goal of explanatory research
Understand the underpinnings of natural phenomena and to explain systematic
relationships among them.
Where evidence-based practice begins
Integration of clinical judgments with research evidence.
Desire behind evidence-based practice
A desire to abandon decisions based on custom and authority opinion.
Search for evidence-based practice
A search for the best possible information for addressing a clinical problem.
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