NSG130 correctly answered to pass
evidence in nursing - correct answer ✔✔can be defined as the evaluation of research, clinical
expertise, nursing theory, and patient involvement
3 components of EBP - correct answer ✔✔Current strong evidence
Clinical expertise
Patient perspectives
1.The best evidence from the most current research available
2.The nurse's clinical expertise
3.The patient's preferences, which reflect values, needs, interests, and choices.
Three sources of knowledge - correct answer ✔✔Traditional
Authoritative
Scientific
Traditional - correct answer ✔✔passed from generation to generation; long-established (its
always been done some way)
Authoritative - correct answer ✔✔comes from an expert, accepted as truth based on person's
perceived expertise (teaching)
Scientific - correct answer ✔✔obtained through the scientific method (research)
, Goals of Research - correct answer ✔✔to develop explanations (in theories) and find solutions
to problems
Quantitative - correct answer ✔✔¡Uses precise measurement to collect data and analyze it
statistically for a summary and a description of the resulting findings or to test relationships of
variables. (numbers, math, stats)
Qualitative - correct answer ✔✔Investigates a question through narrative data that explores the
subjective experiences of human beings and can provide nursing with a better understanding of
the patient's perspective.
Goals include the identification of patterns and themes.
Variable - correct answer ✔✔things that vary and have different values to be measured
Hypothesis - correct answer ✔✔what researcher expects to find
Data - correct answer ✔✔information the researcher collects from subjects in a study
devices used to collect and record the data; should be reliable and valid - correct answer
✔✔intruments
explore and describe events in real-life situations; often used to generate new knowledge about
topics with little to no prior research - correct answer ✔✔descriptive research
examines the type and degree of relationships between two or more variables - correct answer
✔✔correlational research
examines cause-and-effect; often conducted in clinical settings to examine the effects of nursing
interventions on patient outcomes - correct answer ✔✔Quasi-experimental