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Florence Nightingale - correct answers ✔✔Woman who developed first nursing school
What is evidence based practice? - correct answers ✔✔The use of the best clinical evidence in
making patient care decisions
Knowledge - correct answers ✔✔Information we know from research
What is wisdom? - correct answers ✔✔Having a deep understanding, keen discernment, and
sound judgement
Scientific inquiry - correct answers ✔✔Identifying ways of analytical thinking common to
problem solving and critical thinking in nursing
Informal research - correct answers ✔✔Gathering information
Formal research - correct answers ✔✔Systematic inquiry using disciplined methods to solve
problems or answer questions
Nursing research - correct answers ✔✔Systematic inquiry to develop knowledge about issues of
importance to the nursing profession
Clinical nursing research - correct answers ✔✔Research designed to guide nursing practice
, First journal on research (Nursing research) created in _____? - correct answers ✔✔1950s
Clinical research became increasingly important in____? - correct answers ✔✔1980s
What year was the National Center for Nursing Research established? - correct answers
✔✔1986
What are the roles of Nurses in research? - correct answers ✔✔Continuum of participation,
from producers of research to skilled consumers of research findings who use research evidence
in their practice.
Deductive Reasoning - correct answers ✔✔Research that goes from general to specific.
Example of deductive reasoning - correct answers ✔✔All men are mortal. Joe is a man.
Therefore Joe is mortal
Inductive Reasoning - correct answers ✔✔Research that goes from specific to general.
Example of inductive reasoning - correct answers ✔✔This marble from the bag is black. A
second marble from the bag is black. Therefore all the marbles in the bag black.
Quantitative Research - correct answers ✔✔Uses numbers, orderly procedure, pre-specified
plan, seeks generalizations.
Qualitative Research - correct answers ✔✔Uses descriptions, dynamic designs, holistic, humans
as instruments, seeks patterns.
Research Utilization - correct answers ✔✔The use of study findings in a practical application
unrelated to the original research